31 July - 4 September 2021


A sharing of space where two worlds are presented.
Artists Malebona Maphutse and Natalie Paneng have each created their own worlds. Maphutse’s world Tsipa Tsipa Healing Ministries, which is in an apocalyptic state. It is a fictional metropolitan kasi Universe coloured with a mix of apocalyptic and somewhat hopeful tones. The universe is filled with architectural motifs from Johannesburg, Sophiatown, Tulsa Oklahoma, Ndabeni, Khayelitsha to speak to this rupture (chaotic moment) that asks for the inhabitants to leave their homes with the promise of a better future.

Paneng’s world ME HD, is a digital world where you explore and experience the subject in multiple digital forms. This world is experienced through viewing, listening and engaging with relics from Paneng’s digital world.

The exhibition presents both worlds alongside each other, declaring independence, sovereignty and co-existence that is encapsulated under the title I Wanna Rock Lefatshe, which is derived from the 2003 smash hit Rock Lefatshe by South Africa’s performing artist Keabetswe “KB” Motsilanyane. The song proposes to take the audience to an imaginary place, to a tomorrow where the listener would be freed from their sorrows, it proposes to take the audience higher. Maphutse and Paneng have come together to bring us I Wanna Rock Lefatshe;, a tomorrow that is filled with imaginaries that may as well be considered in our reality.

Through the duration of the exhibition the artists will present their worlds’ histories and the coming together of the two in different performances.
We welcome you to view, explore, listen, walk and experience these worlds. Let’s Rock!