Form as a Carrier of Memory: Art of Contemporary Africa at Art Palm Beach

Taking its cue from Jhumpa Lahiri’s reflection on what endures beyond explanation, Form as a Carrier of Memory brings together works that privilege restraint, duration, and attention. Presented by Art of Contemporary Africa at Art Palm Beach, the exhibition features Esther Mahlangu, Clint Strydom, Samuel Allerton, Gavin Rain, and Carol Cauldwell. Across painting, photography, and sculpture, the works approach memory as something embedded in form rather than narrated through event. Meaning accumulates through pattern, material, and perception, resisting immediacy or closure. The presentation invites sustained looking, proposing form as a vessel through which the unknown continues to reside.