TO MAKE
IN A TIME
LIKE THIS
PLATFORM 2020 SHOWCASE
SELECTED WORKS
To Make in a Time Like This invited photographers, visual storytellers and lens-based artists working from or in dialogue with Africa, SWANA and the diaspora to respond to what it means to live, endure and make during a time of rupture and uncertainty.
From 100 submissions, 10 works were selected for the first PLATFORM 2020 online showcase.
About the call
What does it mean to make when the ground beneath you feels uncertain?
To Make in a Time Like This was an invitation to respond from within the conditions shaping this moment, not from outside them, not once they had passed, but from the middle of them. The call welcomed work rooted in lived experience and attentive to the political, social, cultural and economic realities shaping how artists continue to make now.
The selected works move through disappearance and return, grief and survival, violence and memory, labour and erasure, fracture and refusal. Together, they remind us that image-making remains a vital cultural practice: a way of witnessing, resisting and insisting on presence when so much is designed to disappear.
The selected works were reviewed by Dalia Khamissy, Mohamed Somji, Amak Mahmoodian and Laura El-Tantawy.
