PRESS RELEASE
GARINGANI WA GARINGANI
Oct 8 – Oct 29, 2025
THE BLESSING NGOBENI ART PRIZE, IN COLLABORATION WITH EVERARD READ IS PLEASED TO PRESENT KHANYISA AGNES BRANCON'S FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION, GARINGANI WA GARINGANI
Opening reception: Wednesday 8 October
Walkabout: Saturday 11 October – 10:30am
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Garingani wa Garingani. These words carry the weight of ancestral breath, the sacred invocation that opens the doorway between worlds. In the Tsonga tradition, this phrase is not merely an introduction but a spiritual summoning, calling forth the voices of those who have walked before us, their stories woven into the fabric of our being like threads in an eternal tapestry.
This exhibition emerges from the liminal space between memory and presence, between the red earth of Tzaneen and the concrete arteries of urban existence. It is an offering to the maternal lineage that flows through me like a river finding its way to the sea, each woman a tributary, each choice a bend in the waterway that shapes the landscape of my identity.
KHANYISA AGNES BRANCON
(b. 2002 Tzaneen, Limpopo)
Khanyisa Agnes Brancon is an interdisciplinary artist based in Johannesburg hailing from Polokwane. Educated at the University of the Witwatersrand with a BAFA, her artistic practice employs Photography, Printmaking and Installation as mediums of expression. Brancon uses an interdisciplinary approach of textiles as vessels to honour the use of materiality in her work.
Her practice is an excavation of time unraveling timelines of past and present histories. A moment of reclamation, her work creates narratives that hold space for memory, never forgetting what was. Grand themes of colonial erasure, maternal lineage, indigenous knowledge systems are addressed throughout her work.
With their unwavering dedication to the practice of art, their direction leans towards establishing a multidisciplinary career path in professional artistic practice, institution affiliated curation and the pursuit of cultural entrepreneurship.
BLESSING NGOBENI ART PRIZE
The Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize is an award that is aimed at assisting young and emerging visual artists to launch their careers in the art industry. The award acknowledges excellence in emerging artists (under 35) specializing in sculpture, drawing, and painting, or mixed media and provides an opportunity to showcase their talents to a broader audience. Now in its eighth year, The Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize (BNAP) has established itself as a community-based organization collaborating with industry leaders such as Everard Read Gallery, Art Angels, DALRO, JSE, Goodman Gallery, The Melrose Gallery, MMArtHouse, Aspire Art Auctions, Bag Factory Studios, Infra-Afrika Advisory, Ellis House Art Building, Nyko Enterprise, Boschendal and Art Lefatshe Fine Art consultancy and the development agency.
BNAP Foundation is an NPO that aims to address the needs of emerging artists to be able to sustain themselves in the art industry through residencies.
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