Lizamore on Keyes, Johannesburg

Memory rarely returns intact. More often it arrives in fragments, carrying emotion before certainty, blurring the line between what happened and what has been imagined over time. Glimpse is built around this unstable territory, inviting four artists to consider the fleeting moments that linger long after their origins have faded.

Rather than treating memory as something fixed, the exhibition approaches it as an active force that reshapes itself through longing, intuition and perception. Painting and sculpture become vehicles for tracing these elusive encounters, where familiar objects, symbolic forms and layered surfaces evoke recognition without offering complete narratives.

The conversation between Sera Holland, Zonia Scheffer, Sarel Petrus and Ayola Goxo unfolds through distinct material languages. Holland’s richly layered oil paintings reward sustained looking as colour and texture shift between structure and spontaneity. Scheffer constructs surreal spaces where birds, porcelain, marine life and suspended forms drift through dreamlike recollections. Petrus works in bronze and wood, transforming fragments of personal history and found forms into quietly resonant sculptures, while Goxo’s carefully composed paintings occupy a psychological space where architecture, symbols and memory intersect.

Together, the exhibition asks viewers to embrace ambiguity rather than resolve it. Glimpse is less concerned with remembering events than with recognising the emotional traces they leave behind, offering a thoughtful meditation on the ways memory continues to shape how we see ourselves and the world.