'Inganekwane' is a Nguni word that means storytelling, Fable, or creation of history through a narrative performance. The exhibition title aims to explore Khumalo Street as a site of memory where the community's collective knowledge can be shared, performed, and archived. 

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It's through this elaborative memory disposition by which the interconnection between narrative and history can be established.

Khumalo street is an arterial street that experienced a wave of transitional violence between 1991 and 1994. The violence emerged as a result of the conflict of ideologies between hostel dwellers who were politically aligned to the Inkatha Freedom Party and broader township residents who were aligned to the African National Congress. 

The exhibition brings together works from Of Soul and Joy Photo Project students who grew up in the community where the violence has been localised. The project aims to interrogate personal histories and the continuity of the trauma as a generational experience. It's through this social mapping that the students' work intersects collective memory and private memory. 

By participating in the collective narrative the students' work provides documentary photographs that are subjectively representational and cannot be viewed as facts but merge the present with the past.

Click here to view the gallery online - it can be viewed until 21 March 2022.

Photographers: Sibusiso Bheka, Simphiwe Fuwe Molefe, Thembikosi Hlatshwayo, Litha Kanda, Vuyo Mabheka, Sikelela Mdilikwana, Lerato Maphoto, Lunathi Mngxuma, Xolani Ngubeni, Thobeka Nzwana, Sibusiso Sithonga, Simphiwe Vilikazi

Mentors: Jabulani Dhlamini, Sabelo Mlangeni, Andrew Tshabangu, Thandile Zwelibanzi.