Where memory meets movement

'A Grammar of Belonging' reframes home as something carried within the body, shaped by memory, history and shared traditions of making

- Zingisa Mase

The THK Gallery in Cape Town is currently presenting A Grammar of Belonging, an exhibition that brings together the perspectives of both emerging and established artists through photography, visual art and other creative forms.

Artists such as Lulama Wolf and Trevor Stuurman, alongside a diverse group of contributors, weave together material archives — beads and earth — with visual and sonic traces, found photographs and shared traditions of making. Their works draw on generational fabrics and patterns, folklore, ideas of home and place and intimate portraits of connection.

Together, these layered expressions propose belonging not as a fixed state but as something shaped by intimacy, inheritance, relationships and the complex construction of identity.

A Grammar of Belonging seeks to highlight that home and belonging transcend physical spaces and are carried in experiences shaped by places, people, art forms, cultures, history, movement and the solitude of personal devotion, approaching belonging as something fluid and unfolding rather than constant and unchanging.