Curatorial Ethos

I approach curating as a way of thinking in relation — a practice of attending to the conditions that allow meaning to emerge slowly. It is not the staging of events, but the opening of space. What matters to me is not immediacy, but duration; not spectacle, but the quiet gravity of the encounter.

I work with slowness and intimacy as curatorial values. I see exhibitions as open constellations rather than closed statements — provisional forms shaped by conversation, listening, and a resistance to acceleration. At the heart of my practice is a belief in art as a philosophical gesture. I am interested in how artistic practices hold space for vulnerability and resilience, addressing how we inhabit shared worlds not through abstract resolution, but through the material and social realities of making.

I understand place as layered and relational, a thicket of memory and entanglement. Context is never just a backdrop; it is an active force. Tension and conflict too can be generative and productive, clearing space for new understandings of shared histories in the present. Curating across sites becomes a way of tracing resonances and dissonances, allowing difference to breathe rather than fixing it in place to measure distance. Ultimately, my work is guided by a commitment to the continuity of thought and sharing across human connections.

Curating is an act of care — a sustained effort to cultivate the conditions in which art, thought, and community can meaningfully endure.

December 2025: Carrying out curatorial research at the Albertinum in Dresden. This is William Kentridge’s So Sweetly Plays The Dance, which I first saw at the 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2018. The 8- channel immersive installation features “a seemingly endless process of silhouettes, migrating across the landscape” (Kentridge Studio). It is simultaneously a danse macabre and a celebration of life that beautifully reflects on the poignant history of post-apartheid Africa in the context of the Global South.

Eat & Crit

2011–2015