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Batlhaping Ba Re! is a solo exhibition by Mmakgabo Mapula Helen Sebidi (born 1943, South Africa) featuring paintings, etching and a sculpture from a career spanning five decades. The exhibition reflects on Sebidi’s continuous dedication to mythologies, ancestry and traditional value systems, and highlights the innovations that have characterised the artist’s practice in recent years.

Sebidi’s proclamation that, “our education tells us that the first true gods are spirit animals” invites us to think through the spiritual meaning of animals, and the metaphor of animals in everyday life. …