Musa N. Nxumalo was invited by curator Beata America to participate in Cabinet/Record, a curated section of Investec Cape Town Art Fair dedicated to contemporary photography.
The section brings together selected artists whose practices engage the image as a site of memory, inscription and resonance. Conceived as a concentrated curatorial framework within the fair, Cabinet/Record reflects on the photograph not only as document, but as a structure that records, holds and transmits experience. The notion of the cabinet operates here as a device of framing and preservation, where images are positioned in dialogue and understood as carriers of temporal and sensory density.
In proximity to the reflections articulated by Tina Campt in Listening to Images, the section expands the relationship between photography and sound, proposing a mode of attention that moves beyond the purely visual. Within this context, Nxumalo’s work contributes to an ongoing discourse on material presence, perception and the layered politics of representation.
Suburbia Contemporary presented Nxumalo’s work within Cabinet/Record, reinforcing its commitment to placing research-driven artistic practices in focused international curatorial platforms.
