This exhibition presents the works of Manelisi Nene and Katleho Mosia. Created during their SIX WEEK residency, their works converge through the dialogue of greetings, drawing on their Zulu and Sotho heritage. Their practices unfold at the intersection of language, identity, and recognition, employing painting to extend the sacred ritual of acknowledgment into visual form.

A greeting is an act that opens a threshold, inviting us into a space of recognition. In Zulu, it begins with Sanibona—not merely a simple greeting, but a powerful invocation, a declaration that we see you, and all those who journey with you. Le kae? follows in Sotho, a question that probes our place in the world and our sense of belonging: Where are you situated, and where do you and your lineage reside in the constellation of existence? More than a question, it is an invitation—a call to gather histories and to step into a circle of recognition. It invites us to engage not as passive observers, but as active participants in the ritual of seeing and being seen.

These greetings transcend casual gestures; they are cosmological acts—vessels of presence and acknowledgment, echoes of creation, moments of “Let there be…” They urge us to consider: what does it mean to see beyond the surface? To recognize not only the physical but also the spirit and the history it carries? What emerges when two gazes meet, when two voices exchange Sanibona, Le kae? In these small yet profound gestures, history moves forward across generations, identities are affirmed, and survival is honored. To see is to embrace; to acknowledge is to recognize the other fully in their existence. This act of seeing is not only surface deep—it affirms that we do not exist in isolation, but in relation—“We” as opposed to “I.”