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You are warmly invited to the Public Opening of Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted, on Thursday, 20 November 2025 at 6 pm. This survey exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Cauleen Smith is curated by Thato Mogotsi, Curator of Contemporary Art at Zeitz MOCAA, and will be on view on Level 3 Silo Side of the museum until Sunday, 4 October 2026.In her first major presentation on the African continent, Smith’s world-building projects come together in atmospheric installations that offer visitors a layered sensory experience. Short films and videos interact with drawings, sculpted objects, colourful textile banners and the sonic in an expansive exhibition that meditates on the artist’s ongoing concern with Black experimental cinema, Afrocentric aesthetics, Black feminism and the emancipatory uses of the utopic. Smith’s decades-long practice merges her interests in jazz and literature, spirituality, feminism, Afrofuturism and what she calls ‘…the everyday possibilities of the imagination.’
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6 PM | Arrival Drinks & Welcome
Atrium Foyer, Level 0
6.15 PM | Opening Remarks
Dr Greer Valley, Senior Curator & Head of Curatorial Affairs
Thato Mogotsi, Curator
Cauleen Smith, Artist
Atrium Foyer, Level 0
7 PM | Exhibition Walkabout
Level 3 Silo Side
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Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, S Arm road, Silo district, V&A Waterfront, 8001 Cape Town, South Africa, Zeitz Mocaa Food, Re/173714 Silo Sq, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
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