Johannesburg – In a world increasingly marked by fracture, noise, conflict, and division, Artyli Gallery’s presentation at Latitudes 2026 offers something quieter and deeply human.
The Prose and the Passion, the exhibition becomes a response to what Ashraf Jamal describes as a “tin-eared, tone deaf, noisy and hysterical era”, a world increasingly shaped by rupture, anger, alienation, and uncertainty.
The selected artists speak in different visual languages, yet all return us to questions of connection, resilience, compassion, and human presence.
Talia Goldsmith’s Light Keepers stand like sentient guardians within space. Formed from recycled and transformed materials, the sculptures speak of care, spiritual resilience, and the possibility of light emerging from uncertainty.
Together, they become a congregation of quiet witnesses.
Henrico Greyling’s stone and steel sculptures return us to balance, gravity, and presence.
Born into a post-apartheid South Africa, Greyling’s work is not burdened by historical rhetoric but instead grounded in material intelligence, equilibrium, and a deeply centred way of being in the world.
Together, the artists create a contemplative dialogue that invites viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect.
Toni-Ann Ballenden’s layered abstractions emerge from destruction and reconstruction.
Her surfaces hold grief, endurance, vulnerability, and renewal, where broken fragments are rebuilt into spaces of hope.
Her work reminds us that healing is rarely linear, but deeply necessary.
“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.” Mark Rothko
Sudanese-South African artist Raja Oshi creates meditative abstract works through tearing, weaving, and reconstructing canvas, acts that become metaphors for memory, migration, survival, and emotional healing.
Her paintings carry an extraordinary stillness, transforming fragmentation into quiet restoration.
Asanda Kupa’s monumental tapestries speak of collective humanity, community, labour, and belonging.
Created collaboratively within his home community in the Eastern Cape, the works carry a profound sense of interconnectedness, reminding us that no life exists in isolation from another.
Together, these artists create a space that resists hysteria and fragmentation.
Their works ask us to pause, to reflect, and to remember what remains sacred within human experience , connection, gentleness, contemplation, community, and hope.
Mark Rothko once wrote, “Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.”
Within the exhibition, this sentiment quietly unfolds across each work presented.
These artworks become traces of the inner life, meditations on longing, rupture, vulnerability, transcendence, silence, and repair.
They hold the emotional and spiritual residue of being human within a fractured age.
Rather than turning away from the instability of the world, the artists gathered here offer spaces of stillness and quiet awakening, reminders that even within uncertainty, art retains the ability to restore, connect, and return us to ourselves.
We warmly invite you to visit Artyli Gallery at the Manor House during Latitudes Art Fair 2026, held at Shepstone Gardens from 22–24 May 2026.
Artyli Gallery is a winner of the Yoco and 702 award for the “Greatest Art Gallery in Gauteng”.
WHATS ON AT THE GALLERY
Visitors are invited to experience our current group exhibition at Artyli Gallery, which runs for another month. Our art consultants would love to share about the artworks and our artists.
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