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22/01/2026

CHURCH readying itself to welcome the most incredible artist.

Black Dog: The Refuse/al Artist: Oupa Sibeko‘Dogs have long occupied a complex and charged relationship with humanity. I...
08/01/2026

Black Dog: The Refuse/al
Artist: Oupa Sibeko

‘Dogs have long occupied a complex and charged relationship with humanity. In South Africa, and particularly in relation to Black life, this relationship is deeply vexed. During the Soweto Uprising of 1976, it is widely recounted that the first shots were fired after a police dog, set upon protesting students, was killed — variously described as having been stoned or stabbed. The uncertainty surrounding the dog’s death is telling: not because the detail matters more than the outcome, but because it reflects how acts of resistance are often rendered ambiguous, while state violence is rendered absolute. In this telling, the violence began with a dog.

Here, we are asked to witness a dog standing up for itself. The suffering of urban stray dogs becomes allegorical — a mirror of the suffering of the urban poor. Within this lexicon, the Black Dog emerges as resilient and commanding, a figure of survival and presence, reflecting the movement of Black lives through urban Cape Town: a city that has often been hostile, unwelcoming, and cold to Black and Brown bodies.’

*Image and text courtesy of the artist.

10/12/2025

Title: Block Dog: The refuse/al
Artist: Oupa Sibeko

Black Dog, is a liminal, temporal and corporeal experience. Explored through movement and photography, while still making confrontation as play.

The body is split between memory, recollection and the past whilst the present is the live body wrestling with a state of mind as a way of ritual and healing.

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Tuesday 10:00 - 15:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 15:00
Thursday 10:00 - 15:00
Friday 10:00 - 15:00
Saturday 10:00 - 13:00

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