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What do kinship and community mean in contemporary South Africa? How do stories and identities travel from the past to the future, and who cares for them? What role do women play in all this? In this two-person exhibition of textile works, artists Sizwe Sama and Princia Matungulu give visual and tactile form to their own connections to family and community. Both artists feel a strong sense of kinship with their mothers, and see them as the custodians of the knowledge, culture, stories and practical skills that inform their artmaking today. The matriarchal orientation of their works challenges …