There will be hyperpigmented canvases by British - Nigerian Yinka Shonibare MBE,
of the Young British Artists generation; animal - skin sculptures
of the female form by the Swazi artist Nandipha Mntambo; portraits by the queer South African photographer Zanele Muholi; the 2013 Venice Biennale's Angola Pavilion installation by photographer Edson Chagas (winner
of that year's Golden Lion award); an ebony bust by Soweto - born Mohau Modisakeng; a
huge dragon sculpture in rubber and ribbon by the Cape Town — born Nicholas Hlobo; and
sheets made
of 1,150 tiny
glass beads by American artist Liza Lou, who has a studio in Durban, a South African city around 800 miles from Cape Town.
A
huge rectangle
of blue yarn, nailed invisibly to the concrete floor at an angle to its insertion in the wall, becomes a vast and flawless
sheet of glass, leaning gently, worryingly.