Curated by Amogelang Maledu

In 2015, Rhodes Must Fall, a then discrete movement against a colonial-era statue that stood on the campus of the elite University of Cape Town, seeded a nationwide protest against racism, fees, curricula, and labor practices. UCT’s activist students later burned twenty-four artworks and vandalized a photography exhibition, and a subsequent inquiry by the university found that work by white artists comprised nearly 80 percent of the school’s collection. This survey, the title of which derives from a joyous 2018 drawing by Lady Skollie, features works by twenty-five artists recently acquired by UCT as part of an ongoing act of restorative justice. Along with fellow alumna Buhlebezwe Siwani, Skollie represents a new feminist vanguard; the healthy pan-African selection, including Ethiopian photographer Aïda Muluneh, signals geographic redress as well.

— Sean O’Toole