11/08/2026
Join performance and visual artist Oupa Sibeko and Voni Baloyi from Heat Winter Arts Festival with Carin Bester from Working Title Curation for a discussion around his recent body of work, 'Straatmate', shaped by performance, play and the streets of District Six.
Tickets available via Quicket: https://www.quicket.co.za/events/387527-oupa-sibeko-in-conversation-with-voni-baloyi/ #/
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STRAATMATE is part of our August '26 edition of CUBICLE, on view until 15 August.
Oupa Sibeko brings forth HIS astute and witty playfulness yet again with ‘STRAATMATE’. For this body of work, Sibeko underwent an extensive period of research on the history of District Six. He brings the energy of its streets to life through frottage, which involves placing a piece of paper or canvas atop a textured object and rubbing over it with a medium, transferring the textures of the surface onto the substrate.
During his research into the area, Sibeko was struck by the recollections of former residents who spoke of the joy and colour that shaped everyday life there. ‘STRAATMATE’ draws on these recollections, allowing them to exist alongside the weight of history rather than beneath it, emphasising a past that is as much about lived experience as it is about loss. Through play, research and collaboration with the street itself, Sibeko presents artistic practice as something continually shaped by its surroundings rather than confined by them. - Nirel Sithole
Installation images by Michael Hall
