Not everything needs to be explained. Tanja Truscott’s ‘Without Words’ at Sisonke GalleryIn a world sodden with images, opinions and noise, Cape Town–based artist Tanja Truscott is asking something quieter of us: to look, to pause…and to feel.  

Running at Sisonke Gallery from 3 March to 31 May 2026, ‘Without Words' is her new solo exhibition of abstract drawings on paper, presented by House Union Block (HUB). Truscott was a Nando’s Creative Exchange (NCX) participant in 2024 and the exhibition extends the support and momentum fostered through the programme, which is facilitated by HUB. The show offers a considered counterpoint to the speed and noise of contemporary visual culture, inviting viewers to spend time with work that resists explanation and rewards stillness.

Rather than drawing with pencil, Truscott uses oil paint on carefully prepared paper, allowing the linework to take centre stage. Some drawings hold faint traces of real-world references (a garden, a figure, a place), while others emerge without any external reference at all.

In these works, line becomes an expression of feeling rather than depiction.‘Without Words’ is gentle yet resolute: an exhibition that reminds us that meaning doesn’t always need to be articulated, and that sometimes the most resonant encounters happen when influence, comparison and commentary fall away.