Gymnasium

The exhibition opened on the eve of South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown, and the catalogue essay by Mwenya B Kabwe asks what the Gymnasium series gives us ’at a time like this, a time of such massive upheaval’. Interweaving a fabular tale with her insights into Nkosi’s lens on this moment, Kabwe write: ’Nkosi tells us that when we are talking about race, we are never just talking about race. When we are talking about infectious diseases, we are actually talking about the biological expression of social inequality.’ She continues: