Museum Africa in Newtown is unveiling Fashion Accounts, a thought-provoking exhibition that explores the politics of collecting, archiving, and memorialising history through dress.
Curated by South African designer Wanda Lephoto, fashion academic Dr Erica de Greef, and UK-based curator Alison Moloney, Fashion Accounts presents installations that examine memory, resistance, and preservation.
The exhibition features new commissions by The Sartists and Mimi Duma, as well as works by South African designers Thebe Magugu and Sindiso Khumalo, addressing colonial influences in Museum Africa’s collection.
“Fashion Accounts is both an account of fashion practices, historic and contemporary, which represent resistance and liberation and a stage to hold fashion to account as a tool of colonialism,” said Moloney.
Museum Africa’s collections, including a 14 000-piece ethnographic archive and 11 000 photographs, highlight untold histories…