



REFRAMING VISIBILITY
Yasmine Yacoubi,Jasirah Sayed, Mahube Diseko, Yolanda Mazwana, Lona Ndzimande, Melissa Barker, Charity Vilakazi , Geena Wilkinson, Sahlah Davids, Mandy Johnston, Muofhe Manavhela
The exhibition draws attention to the social frameworks through which women’s visibility has historically been regulated and judged. Within many cultural contexts, appearance and self-presentation are frequently linked to expectation, scrutiny, and blame, where visibility itself can be misread as provocation or excess.
The exhibition asks how artists navigate, resist, and reconfigure these expectations. Working across painting, sculpture, and experimental forms, the artists engage questions of identity, material presence, interiority, labour, and embodiment.
Reframing Visibility ultimately shifts attention from appearance to perception itself. The works gathered here expand the terms through which women are read and interpreted, suggesting that visibility is not a stable condition but a contested field, one that can be challenged, redirected, and reimagined through artistic practice.