Contemporary African art at the Mount Nelson

Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, Cape Town, has launched a new art exhibition curated by RESERVOIR Projects – Disrupting the Dream: Surreal Narratives – in collaboration with the Norval Foundation. The exhibition, which runs until the end of October this year, brings together a collection of contemporary African art that explores the intersection of dreams, symbolism and cultural memory.

Exploring surrealism from an African perspective, the exhibition reflects on the continent’s artistic evolution from the 1960s to the present day.

Heinrich Groenewald and Shona van der Merwe of RESERVOIR Projects sought to reframe surrealism beyond its Eurocentric origins by selecting works…