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Rail Yard, Reuben van Hoeve ()
10/03/2026

Rail Yard, Reuben van Hoeve ()

Meat Masters Slaghuis-Butchery, Standerton, 2025, Anton Bossenbroek ()
09/26/2026

Meat Masters Slaghuis-Butchery, Standerton, 2025, Anton Bossenbroek ()

Dawie sharpening my panga (machete), Anton Bossenbroek ()
09/19/2026

Dawie sharpening my panga (machete), Anton Bossenbroek ()

Nomsa picking recyclable goodsat Embalenhle township, 2024, Anton Bossenbroek ()
09/05/2026

Nomsa picking recyclable goodsat Embalenhle township, 2024, Anton Bossenbroek ()

Join us tonight for the First Thursday Artwalk, and the opening of Anton Bossenbroek's solo show, Sunsetting 64 Megatons...
09/03/2026

Join us tonight for the First Thursday Artwalk, and the opening of Anton Bossenbroek's solo show, Sunsetting 64 Megatons

Sasol Secunda synthesises petrol and diesel out of coal, and in doing so emits 64 million tons of CO₂ a year, more than any other single point on earth. The chemistry that makes this possible is the Fischer-Tropsch process, industrialised by N**i Germany when it needed fuel it couldn't buy, taken up decades later by the apartheid state for exactly the same reason, and kept running ever since by a global oil economy that found the arrangement convenient enough to leave alone. Anton Bossenbroek first came to the plant in 2018 as a machine learning consultant, writing the models that predicted failures in its cooling systems — work whose entire purpose was to keep the thing from stopping. He went back with a large-format camera to photograph it ending.

What the pictures find isn't a spoiled landscape so much as a designed one. The ground here was shaped by extraction, and arranged by the economics and racial planning that decided where the plant would go and where the people who work near it would live. Alongside the terrain are portraits made with residents of Secunda and Embalenhle, holding their ground against the plant behind them, and the show follows the ordinary texture of living next to it: the layout of the township, the taxi fare that takes a real cut of a day's wages.

The ending is already underway. The coal is running out, decommissioning is coming, and the same facility that accelerates the carbon in the atmosphere also funds South African teachers' pensions. Neither fact cancels the other, which is the difficulty the work sits inside: what does the place become — architecturally, socially — once the machines power down?

Taking a couple of weeks off, we'll be back with a new show for the first Thursday in September.
08/08/2026

Taking a couple of weeks off, we'll be back with a new show for the first Thursday in September.

Tonight is the artwalk, and the last night of Jake Knapp's Middle Names. We'll be open from 5-9pm.
08/06/2026

Tonight is the artwalk, and the last night of Jake Knapp's Middle Names. We'll be open from 5-9pm.

Today is the last day to see Colton Rothwell's Shadow Machine. Opening is a little delayed today, we'll be open 1:30-5.
06/27/2026

Today is the last day to see Colton Rothwell's Shadow Machine. Opening is a little delayed today, we'll be open 1:30-5.

Join us this Thursday for the First Thursday Artwalk, and the opening o Colton Rothwell's Shadow Machine.One wet winter,...
06/03/2026

Join us this Thursday for the First Thursday Artwalk, and the opening o Colton Rothwell's Shadow Machine.

One wet winter, stuck inside and missing a place he liked to wander, Colton Rothwell built a machine. He called it a shadow machine — a homemade apparatus meant to conjure the dappled summer light of a flooded gravel pit on the edge of his town, and with it the memory of a single look he'd once exchanged with another man across the water, before turning and walking home.

The project that grew out of it gathers photographs of the machine working, images of the overgrown landscape where it happened, and the warm-toned Van D**e prints the apparatus itself produced — light recorded directly onto hand-coated paper.

Images:
2 - Untitled (Cruising II)
3 - Untitled (Cruising)
4 - Reciprocity (Flip F**k)
5 - Shadow Machine
6 - Artifact

All images by Colton Rothwell (@)

Today is the last day of June T Sanders' Prairie Pslam, open until 5pm.
05/23/2026

Today is the last day of June T Sanders' Prairie Pslam, open until 5pm.

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