Weaving together a number of Wael Shawky’s large-scale film productions, sculptures and drawings, the exhibition will celebrate an extraordinary artist, and honour the Byzantine and Islamic Art Historian who gave the gallery its name 50 years ago – David Talbot Rice.
Through artworks that capture the potency of children’s playful imaginations, The Children are Now makes reference to apartheid education, militaristic games and generational trauma, asking how history is made to repeat itself in the face of those who are capable of reimagining everything.
