


The Gods Must Be Crazy
Tshepo Sizwe Phokojoe | Curated by Mzoxolo Vimba
At the heart of The Gods Must Be Crazy lies a search for home. Home as land, as origin, as ancestry. In this pursuit, the project turns to the Sakman community, mountain dwellers, renowned herbalists, and carriers of knowledge clothed in Hessian fabric, whose living practices echo the wisdom of the Khois and Sans inhabiting Southern Africa. Their stories and silences speak to the extinction and endurance of ancient Bushmen's wisdom, whispering of a home long fragmented, yet never lost.
Through textile and mixed media, the exhibition reimagines these narratives with Hessian cloth as a central motif, an emblem of continuity, vulnerability, and resilience. It becomes skin, shroud, and scripture: the material that binds the ancestral past to the contemporary body.The Gods Must Be Crazy does not claim to answer, but to hold space for the question. To sit in the paradox of loss and abundance, of silence and song, of exile and return. It is a call to remember that art, like home, is both fragile and eternal, rooted in earth, yet always reaching toward the sky.
The exhibition is on display from 2 October to 13 November 2025.