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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Silvia Rosi at Paris Photo 2026 | For Southern Guild’s presentation at Booth B54, Silvia Rosi presents three works: ‘Self Portrait as My Mother’ from her ‘Encounter’ (2019) series, alongside ‘Disintegrata di Profilo (Disintegrated Profile)’ and ‘Disintegrata in bici (Disintegrated on Bike)’ from ‘Disintegrata’ (2024).
An artist of Italian-Togolese descent, Rosi approaches the family archive through performative self-portraiture, examining the transmission of cultural identity and the experiences of the African diaspora in Europe. Drawing on the visual conventions of West African studio photography, she constructs carefully staged images in which costume, gesture, props, and vivid colour become instruments of historical reconstruction.
A recipient of the C/O Berlin Talent Award, Rosi presented her first solo exhibition in Germany, Protektorat, at C/O Berlin in 2025. Her work was also included in ‘Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination’ at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, from 14 December 2025 to 25 July 2026.
Visit us at Booth B54 in the Voices Sector at the Grand Palais, Paris, until 15 November 2026.
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Image captions: Silvia Rosi, ‘Disintegrata di Profilo’ (Disintegrated in Profile), 2024. ©️ Silvia Rosi. Supported by Collezione Maramotti; ‘Disintegrata in bici’ (Disintegrated on Bike), 2024. Courtesy Silvia Rosi; ‘Self Portrait as My Mother’, 2019. Courtesy Silvia Rosi and Anna Arca; Southern Guild, Booth B54, Paris Photo (installation view), 2026. Courtesy Florent Drillon/Southern Guild.
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13 Nov 2026
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Sandra Brewster at Paris Photo 2026 | For Southern Guild’s presentation at Booth B54, Brewster presents ‘Blur 41’ and ‘Blur 23’, two works from her ongoing series exploring movement, migration, memory, and diasporic identity.
Born in Toronto to Guyanese parents, the artist draws on her Caribbean heritage and the experiences of migration that have shaped her understanding of identity and belonging. In ‘Blur’, figures appear in motion, their features deliberately obscured through slow-shutter photography.
The images are transferred onto paper using an experimental gel-transfer process that introduces tears, folds, and imperfections, further disrupting the photograph’s capacity to fix its subject in place.
Rather than suggesting disappearance or loss, Brewster’s blurred portraits assert the agency of subjects who resist being fully captured or defined. As the artist explains, “Through its gestures, I’ve expressed a movement that gives the figure agency, denying the viewer complete entry and presenting an unfixable presence, one that cannot be contained.”
Read more: In our recent editorial, ‘An Unfixable Presence: In Conversation with Sandra Brewster’, the artist reflects on the evolution of ‘Blur’, her experimental approach to image-making, and the relationships between memory, material, and identity. Read the full conversation via the link in our bio (under NEWS).
Visit us at Booth B54 in the Voices Sector at the Grand Palais, Paris, until 15 November 2026.
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Image captions: Southern Guild, Booth B54, Paris Photo (Installation view), 2026. Courtesy Florent Drillon/Southern Guild; Sandra Brewster, ‘Blur 41’, 2026. Courtesy of the artist/Southern Guild.
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13 Nov 2026
Last Saturday, Firmdale’s Design Director and Art Ambassador @willowkemp took guests on an Art Walk through @warrenstreet_hotel, sharing the stories behind works by artists such as @craggtony, @wendellcastle_official and @gatejasanaa_official, and the pleasure of living with art rather than simply looking at it.
Then it was a short stroll through Tribeca with @southernguildgallery co-founder @mcgowantrevyn to the gallery, where artists @chidywayne and @amine.elgotaibi welcomed us into their newly opened exhibitions, "Monomyths" and "Wind from the North". Both shared fascinating insights into their creative processes, from the materials they work with to the stories and ideas behind their art.
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12 Nov 2026
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Zanele Muholi at Paris Photo 2026 | For Southern Guild’s debut at Paris Photo, Zanele Muholi presents two self-portraits from their acclaimed ‘Somnyama Ngonyama’ (Hail the Dark Lioness) series: ‘Mlingani II, District Six, Cape Town’ (2025), presented as a lightbox, and ‘Khanyilanga III, Koreatown, Los Angeles’ (2024), realised as a large-scale aluminium panel.
Through heightened contrast, carefully constructed adornment, and an unwavering gaze, Muholi confronts the historical representation of Black bodies in photography, reclaiming the camera as a tool of self-definition, resistance, and visibility.
Made in Cape Town and Los Angeles, the works reflect the visual activist’s ongoing engagement with race, identity, and belonging across geographical and cultural contexts. Their inclusion in Paris Photo’s Voices sector, curated around the theme ‘La Disparition’ (Disappearance), speaks to Muholi’s insistence on visibility in the face of historical erasure.
A recipient of the 2026 Hasselblad Award, Muholi has spent more than two decades building a visual archive that centres Black LGBTQIA+ lives and challenges who is seen, remembered and represented.
Booth B54, Voices Sector
Grand Palais, Paris
12–15 November 2026
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Image captions: Zanele Muholi, ‘Khanyilanga III, Koreatown, Los Angeles’, 2024. Courtesy Southern Guild; ‘Mlingani II, District Six, Cape Town’, 2025. Courtesy Lea Crafford/Southern Guild
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12 Nov 2026
NOW OPEN | Paris Photo 2026 | Southern Guild makes its Paris Photo debut at the Grand Palais with an all-women presentation of works by Sandra Brewster, Lebohang Kganye, Zanele Muholi and Silvia Rosi, on view in the fair’s curated Voices sector.
Responding to La Disparition (Disappearance), the presentation considers the photographic image as a site of transformation, reinvention, and resistance. Through staged self-portraiture, archival reconstruction, photographic transfers, and textile, the four artists push beyond the medium’s conventional boundaries, challenging notions of visibility, representation, and the photograph as a fixed record.
Find us at Booth B54 through Sunday, 15 November.
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Friday 13 November | 17:00–18:00
Zanele Muholi in conversation with Tina M. Campt, moderated by Pablo Larios, at the Paris Photo Auditorium.
Saturday 14 November | 13:30–15:00
Join Muholi at Booth B54 for a signing of Faces and Phases: 2006–2026, their latest publication with MACK.
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11 Nov 2026
As part of our participation in the inaugural Art Week NYC (11–15 November 2026), Southern Guild New York will be open for extended evening hours on Friday, 13 November, from 6–8PM.
On view are two newly opened solo exhibitions:
‘Wind from the North’ by Moroccan artist Amine El Gotaibi, exploring the movement of wind across geographical and ideological boundaries through sculpture, installation, and works on paper.
‘Monomyths’ by Barcelona-based artist Chidy Wayne, featuring new mixed-media paintings that examine the human figure as a vessel for memory, inheritance, and archetypal experience.
We look forward to welcoming you to our Tribeca gallery!
Friday, 13 November | 6–8PM
Southern Guild New York
75 Leonard Street, Tribeca
Art Week NYC is presented by Artforum, ARTnews and Art in America, with digital guide support powered by Bloomberg Connects.
Learn more at art-week.com
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Image captions: Artwork from ‘Monomyths’ (2026) by Chidy Wayne, courtesy Lea Crafford/Southern Guild; artwork from ‘Wind from the North’ (2026) by Amine El Gotaibi, courtesy Joseph Ouechen/the artist; exterior of Southern Guild New York (2026), courtesy Rebecca Smeyne/Southern Guild
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10 Nov 2026
‘Wind From The North’ Opening 6.11.26 @southernguildgallery New York
Thanks to my team in Marrakech and the whole Southern Guild team; it has been an incredible process bringing this show to life. Thanks also to everyone who attended the opening and made it such a special night. Special thanks to my wife, who managed so much to make this show happen @amytstory
10 Nov 2026
Opening night. Thank you to the collectors, institutions, friends, team and family for the immense support.
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09 Nov 2026
Last few days to see @alexandra.karakashian 🖤
solo @southernguildgallery, Cape Town -12th
then she’s featured at Dakar biennial the following week
09 Nov 2026
A wonderful morning welcoming guests of the Warren Street Hotel for the New York Art Walk with Willow Kemp, Art Ambassador and Design Director of Firmdale Hotels.
Beginning with breakfast in the hotel’s Drawing Room, guests enjoyed a guided tour of its remarkable art collection, with Willow sharing stories behind works by artists including Southern Guild artist Terence Maluleke, alongside insights into collecting and living with art.
The morning continued with a short stroll to Southern Guild New York, where guests were treated to a private tour of our newly opened solo exhibitions, ‘Wind from the North’ by Moroccan artist Amine El Gotaibi and ‘Monomyths’ by Spanish-Guinean artist Chidy Wayne.
Thank you to Willow and the team at Warren Street Hotel for bringing us together!
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07 Nov 2026
🔊 Meet Mmangaliso Nzuza (@mmangalisonzuza), a rising painter who explores the self and the collective through bold, angular figures that recall early Cubism.
Spend time with Mmangaliso as he shares the paintings he’s working on and explains how memory and intuition guide his practice.
Mmangaliso is part of The Artsy Vanguard 2027, our annual list of 10 artists defining what’s next in contemporary art.
🔗Meet the other artists at the link in bio.
Credits:
Executive producer: Casey Lesser
Creative director: Molly Gottschalk
Director/DP: Lola Dollimore (@loladollimore)
Editor: Jack Kuczala
Designer: Douglas Escalante
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06 Nov 2026
Today, we celebrate Usha Seejarim amid a remarkable year in her three-decade practice, marked by significant international institutional recognition.
Following the September inauguration of her permanent public memorial, ‘Force – Death by Drowning’, in Bremen, Germany, her solo exhibition ‘Life Force’ continues at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus. The project represents a powerful contribution to public memory, extending her longstanding engagement with the body, power, and human experience into the civic landscape.
This year has also seen the acquisition of her work by the North Dakota Museum of Art, her US solo debut ‘Used’ at Southern Guild in New York, and her graduation with an MBA from Henley Business School.
Happy birthday, Usha!
Read our editorial, ‘New Institutional Chapters in Usha Seejarim’s Three-Decade Practice’, at our link in bio (under NEWS).
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Image caption: Usha Seejarim in her Johannesburg studio (2026). Courtesy Anthea Pokroy/Southern Guild
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05 Nov 2026
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