Comprising five exhibitions, an artists’ residency programme, a community-based educational programme, and a conference, Crossing Night / Hacer Noche is the first large-scale exploration of the historical links between Southern Africa and Mexico through the lens of contemporary art.

The project looks at societal relationships to death and dying within Southern Africa and Mexico as an entry point to a broader search for shared ways of relating to history in the present in these two postcolonial regions.

The project touches on the fragility and finitude of human experience, the relationship between violence and death, the ethics of how we relate to corpses, our rituals of life, death and the afterlife, our connections with our ancestors, and how our will for form is at the last instance a will to be remembered.

Participants artists:  
Tiago Borges, Steven Cohen, Marlene Dumas, Dumile Feni, Jared Ginsburg, David Goldblatt, Georgina Gratrix, Haroon Gunn-Salie, Dan Halter, Nicholas Hlobo, Jackson Hlungwani, Pieter Hugo, William Kentridge, David Koloane, Moshekwa Langa, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Ernest Mancoba, Sabelo Mlangeni, Santu Mofokeng, Samson Mudzunga, Zanele Muholi, Simphiwe Ndzube, Antonio Ole, Athi Patra-Ruga, Jo Ractliffe, Robin Rhode, Cinga Samson, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi, Johannes Segogela, Penny Siopis, James Webb, and Portia Zvavahera.

Venues:
Centro Cultural Santo Domingo
Centro Cultural y Académico San Pablo
Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo
Centro de las Artes San Agustín, Etla
Museo de Arte Prehispánico Rufino Tamayo
lnstituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO)