NOMBIDA x Nwabisa Ntlokwana: Inherited Memory

NOMBIDA, founded by Thando Nombida, and Johannesburg-based visual artist Nwabisa Ntlokwana present a collaborative exhibition at Cnr 9th Street and Rustenburg Road, Melville (upstairs at The Bamboo Centre) honouring Thando’s grandmother through the recreation of her 1980s patchwork leather dress.

The project brings together two practices rooted in material, memory, craft, sustainability and the ways women carry inheritance across generations. For Nombida, the dress becomes a celebration of the matriarchal lineage that shaped his life; for Ntlokwana, it extends her ongoing exploration of motherhood, remembrance and renewal. Together, the artists transform an inherited garment into a contemporary vessel for memory and cultural continuity.

 

Open to the public.