Collection: 'Evidence of Things Not Seen' – Group Exhibition

Evidence of Things Not Seen

06.08.25 – 13.09.25

Participating Artists: Abdesslem Ayed, Nada Baraka and Balekane Legoabe

There are truths that resist visibility, histories that whisper rather than declare, futures imagined through fragments, symbols, and dreams. Evidence of Things Not Seen brings together three artists whose practices embrace the speculative not as a genre, but as a mode of belief, a creative faith in that which lies beyond the tangible.

Working at the seam between the spiritual and the elemental; Balekane Legoabe’s abstracted forms, echoing cave paintings and ancient visual languages, summon the rituals and cosmologies of African and Eastern traditions. Hers is a practice of invocation: of family, of healing, of earth-bound wisdom. Through her layered compositions, Legoabe speculates not on science fiction futures, but on ancient futures, those shaped by the deep memory of nature, becoming a meditation on identity as something cyclical and porous, mirroring the regenerative logic of the natural world and the sacred.

A quiet interplay of image and cultural memory guides the hand of Abdesslem Ayed, whose work evokes scenes of intimacy and worlds not rooted in reality. Soft collisions between heritage and the everyday unfold through cuttings, photographs, and stitched gestures. By assembling fragments of personal and collective history, Ayed creates spaces that feel both devotional and domestic, where cherubs float beside the mundane, and embroidery stitches together past and present - an act of rupture and restoration.

In contrast, a more eruptive sensibility challenges the abstract, as Nada Baraka conjures visceral worlds that resist stasis. Baraka’s paintings embody distorted forms and fluid layers, refusing coherence and inviting ambiguity. These compositions are not static images but unstable environments with spaces suspended in unresolved tension. Simultaneously intimate and alien, they hold strange beauty and the surreal potential of absurdity. Rather than offering resolution, Baraka’s works act as thresholds and portals to futures that remain just out of reach.

Other Worlding explores expression as a vessel for the hidden and marginalised, layering memory, myth, and metaphor to create spaces that exist outside linear time and rigid logic. These are places of flux and of soft resistance. This is less about imagining different futures, than it is about re-authoring reality through a plurality of voices and cosmologies, becoming both political and poetic.

Together, these three artists gesture toward unseen realms, that are inherited, imagined,  or intuited. Evidence of Things Not Seen is not about what can be proven, but what can be believed: a visual offering that trusts the invisible currents beneath history, the sacred, and the self.