At Their Feet exhibition centres care and collaboration

Curated by Voni Baloyi, At Their Feet opened on Friday, 13 June 2025 at the Lemkus Gallery, Cape Town.

The group exhibition, supported by Creative Knowledge Resources based at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art, brings together artists in collaborative pairs to explore care as an artistic practice. Inspired by Nadia Davids’ acclaimed play At Her Feet and the Hadith proverb, “Wisdom lies at the foot of the mother”, Baloyi says the exhibition expands the idea of mothering beyond biology, framing it instead as an ethic of love, attention and mutual support.

Among the featured visual artists are Michaelis School of Fine Art graduates, Zenaéca Singh, whose sugar-based installations recall the history of indentured labour in KwaZulu-Natal and Rebaone Finger, who reclaims the ‘cheese girl’ trope to challenge perceptions of black femininity, luxury and visibility. The exhibition honours art not only as a product, but as a space of encounter and dialogue.

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