Sabela Uyabizwa brings the work of Gladys Mgudlandlu into dialogue with new responses by Kemang Wa Lehulere, staging an intergenerational encounter between a pioneering South African modernist and one of the country's most significant contemporary conceptual artists. The title, drawn from Nguni languages, may be understood as a summons: "respond, you are being called." This call is historical, spiritual, formal and ethical. It asks what it means to listen across time without resolving or flattening the past; to answer an artist whose work was never fully received in its own moment.

Viewers can expect an exhibition of intimate scale but considerable conceptual depth. The works invite close looking, but also a kind of listening: to surface, gesture, absence and echo. Across the exhibition, the encounter between the two artists becomes a meditation on inheritance, abstraction, and Black artistic memory. Sabela Uyabizwa asks how contemporary practice might answer the call of an earlier generation without claiming mastery over it. It is an exhibition about recognition, but also about restraint; about the debt owed to those who made imaginative freedom possible under profoundly unequal conditions; and about the continuing urgency of Mgudlandlu's work within South African art history today.

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