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Disruption
Exhibition 10–24 September 2022
Event photograph from the opening of ‘Disruption’, Hanna Noor Mahomed’s residency in A4’s Goods project space. From the Goods entrance, a collage of poster fragments and drawing interventions are visible on the wall.
Opening: Hanna Noor Mahomed’s Disruption curated by Khanya Mashabela, September 10, 2022. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title Disruption Dates 10–24 September 2022 Location Goods Tagline In a gesture of playful-but-serious criticism of the local arts ecology, Hanna Noor Mahomed disrupts Social’s archival installation on the walls of Goods.
Curator Khanya Mashabela
Credits

Artist:
Hanna Noor Mahomed

Hanna Noor Mahomed maps the social geography of Cape Town’s artistic landscape by collaging, drawing, painting, and pasting monotypes over the wall installation that marked the beginning of Social. Presented in the iteration of Goods that occurred prior to Hannahs’ residency, and curated by Khanya Mashabela, Social is a growing archive of graphic material submitted by practitioners through an open call. Social’s posters, flyers and photographs record independent artist initiatives in Cape Town.

Informed by Mahomed’s experiences as a young artist and woman of colour, Disruption is a playful-but-serious critique of Cape Town’s art ecosystem’s “perceived bubble of exclusivity,” according to Mashabela. “Art worlds mirror and respond to the sociological imbalances of their broader contexts.” Working with, through and upon Goods, Mahomed expands upon the ever-shifting function of the space by using it as an artist residency and visual microcosm of the city.

Process photograph from ‘Disruption’, Hanna Noor Mahomed’s residency in A4’s Goods project space. Detail of a wall mural with drawings and collaged graphic material from Khanya Mashabela’s ‘Social’ archive.
Process: Hanna Noor Mahomed’s Disruption curated by Khanya Mashabela, September 10, 2022–September 24, 2022. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
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