Latitudes have announced the 12 curators for the 2023 Latitudes CuratorLab, an online practice-based curatorial residency for emerging curators in Africa. The residency will run for 6 weeks from January to April 2023 and participants will plan and conceptualise their own show to be hosted on Latitudes Online, an online marketplace for art from Africa.
Meet the selected curators:
Kezia Ouomoye Owusu-Ankomah
Kezia Ouomoye Owusu-Ankomah is an art practitioner. (Writer, Curator, Artist, and Mentor). She is currently the Gallery manager at ADA contemporary, Ghana. She has curated different exhibitions including “Monologue of Voices” in 2019; a solo exhibition titled “Hulu Shinyoo” which was held at the National Museum Ghana in 2022; “The comeback”, a group exhibition at Tse Addo; and “Obaakofornsa II,” a solo exhibition at the National Theatre, Ghana. She is presently the Operations Advisor at The African Art Hub UK.
Carina Ubisse Capitine
Carina Ubisse Capitine is a Mozambican artist who works primarily with ceramics. She is the founder of KAPPAUSSÊ – Atelier de Cerâmica Artesanal (Handmade Ceramic Atelier), a space dedicated to the practice and celebration of handmade, afro-centric ceramic in Maputo. She is also one of the facilitators of Maputo Figure Drawing, a community-sourced art initiative. She has a degree in Communication Sciences from Universidade Politécnica in Mozambique (2017). She completed her Masters in Communication and Development Studies from the University of Ohio in 2020 as a Fulbright Scholar.
Denzel ‘Denzo’ Nyath
Denzel ‘Denzo’ Nyathi is a designer, writer, and curator from South Africa. He studied Communication Design at the Rhodes University School of Journalism. He approaches curation with curiosity. Denzo has years of experience in art journalism and criticism. He has written for major local publications such as Bubblegum Club Magazine and Mail&Gaurdian. With a background in visual arts, creative writing, drama and design, what connects Denzo’s professional and personal work is an admiration for how art shines a light on the kaleidoscope of our soul.
Basadi Elang
Basadi Dibeela (she/her) is a curator and freelance arts journalist from Botswana whose work centres around arts, innovation, and sustainability. She holds a Masters in Arts Journalism from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Botswana. She seeks to create experiences that connect people in an accessible and engaging manner. She is interested in an expansive and accessible art landscape that seeks to find new expressions and vocabularies outside of cities and metropolitan areas.
Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Nonzuzo Gxekwa is a self-taught photographer from South Africa. She is a 2021 Jan Van Eyck Academie participant. Her optic is loving. It is not simply that she chooses to focus on moments of self-love – the way people occupy themselves – but that in the taking, her subjects are never wholly circumscribed. There is always space to manoeuvre.
Gemma Hart
Gemma Hart is a curator, writer and facilitator based in Johannesburg. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she also completed her MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice. In her practice-based research, she explores the museum as a pedagogical platform. She is interested in curatorial practice and the ideology of display, specifically focusing on immersive modes of exhibition-making while also investigating the inherent power dynamics held within socially constructed space. Her research examines the persistent legacy of colonial ideology which continues to haunt museums in the contemporary moment.
Motheo Mamabolo
Motheo Mamabolo is a South African interdisciplinary artist and curator. Her work explores the integration of the human psyche into the new digital world. Through mediums such as culinary art, audio-making and visual art, Mamabolo investigates and envisages human existence parallel to technological evolution. Her core interests are based on food inequality in South Africa, the systematic disparities exacerbated by private institutions using 4IR and speculative art that investigates Africa’s role in spirituality and mental health practices. Her plays have been recognised by the Wits School of Drama, receiving the Best Script, Best Ensemble and Best Direction for a One-Act Play by the Repertory Amateur Players Society in 2016.
Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Tinashe Mushakavanhu was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is a writer, editor and scholar. Tinashe Mushakavanhu’s curatorial practice is primarily focused on research-based projects. He is an alumnus of the Independent Curators International’s Curatorial Intensive Kampala, a platform for gaining new skills and perspectives on curating. His forthcoming exhibition, “The centre is everywhere,” is based on writer Dambudzo Marechera‘s exile experiences, and will open at the Old Fire Station in Oxford, UK.
Jadesola Olaniyan
Jadesola Olaniyan is an artist, curator and anthropologist born and based in Lagos, Nigeria. They completed their BA (Hons.) in Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, with a focus on Museum Studies and Visual Culture. Their curatorial perspective is informed by theories of memory, consciousness and existentialism, and how these theories relate to time, place, objects, and people. Their curatorial goal is to document the emergence of these themes through the mobilization of thought which extends beyond the gallery space and into the daily lives of artists and non-artists alike.
Tsholofelo Radebe
Tsholofelo Radebe is an artist and curator from South Africa. He has experience in multiple fields such as Drama, Literature, Music and of course Visual Art. Papa Woke is a spiritual manifestation conjured by Tsholofelo Radebe who uses his talents in art curation, music, poetry and dance to connect with people through art exhibitions and music festivals. W.O.K.E Arts is the conscious art renaissance of Southern Africa.
