CURRENTS

LegakwanaLeo Makgekgenene, freelancehoneybadgerr, Moleboge Mokgosi, Kutlo Mabua, Rrangwane

Organised by Thebe Phetogo

Long Gallery: 25.04.25 - 05.06.25

CURRENTS is a group exhibition that brings together young and emerging artists from Botswana, each engaging with digital media in distinct and thought-provoking ways. Organised by Thebe Phetogo, this exhibition captures a moment of creative flux—where emerging voices reimagine artistic practice through contemporary technologies. Working across print, video, and hybrid forms, these artists harness the possibilities of digital tools while interrogating the shifting landscapes of visual culture, identity, and artistic expression.

The title CURRENTS marks the pulse of the present—a moment of creative urgency and innovation, where these vanguard voices shape and redefine Botswana's evolving visual arts sphere. At the same time, CURRENTS references the movement of electrical charge through circuits, a nod to the digital nativity of the works presented. Whether in the construction of the images themselves or in the ways they are disseminated, these artists embrace "the artist's new tools"—technologies that shape contemporary art-making, bridging the tactile and the virtual, the local and the global.

And then, there is water. A current is also a flow—shifting, unpredictable, shaping everything in its path. Just as rivers carve landscapes over time, these artists navigate fluid spaces, where history, technology, and cultural narratives converge.

CATALOGUE

Ruby Wilson