The Cleaner

Transatlantic Hemispheres

An exhibition with a 7794 mile journey from Cape Town to North Adams. The artists taking part in the exhibition are all currently working in Cape Town, South Africa. At various stages in their career, this will be the first time they will be exhibiting in the US. The artist’s work in different techniques and mediums. Their artworks deal with Identity, migration, land, heritage, and language. Their artworks depict the current social and political climate in South Africa that represent their own unique experiences. With the new artworks we can start a conversation about what art can be in a post pandemic world.

Simphiwe Kaka (1991) is a South African artist specializing in portraiture. Inspired by his immediate environment, Kaka often portrays rare, personal and mysterious African subjects juxtaposed against fantastical landscapes where culture, the future, ritual and the contemporary world meet and coexist. He says the reason for this is to inspire originality, non conformity and the desire for the youth to fully express themselves and change the world regardless of their demographics, race or space in which they find themselves.