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SOUTH SOUTH

SOUTH SOUTH platform launches today and announces the participating galleries at its inaugural event, SOUTH SOUTH VEZA, running 24 February to 7 March 2021 with a live vernissage auction on Tuesday 23 February.

The initiative creates a place where galleries, artists, curators and collectors can come together, collaborate and exchange knowledge as a community, addressing the gaps in art history; and where audiences can explore alternative art centres and discover remarkable artistic production from regions that have historically been marginalised.

The year-round platform hosts an archive section of seminal exhibitions and key curatorial texts from the past 30 years, alongside a feature section highlighting on-going events, talks, moments and performances from the Global South and publishing on-going, interview-based editorial. Shaped by the participating galleries and invited curators, SOUTH SOUTH’s launch is just the star ting point: content will grow democratically, creating a dynamic forum devoted to the artistic discourses of the Global South and a portal to its current developments.

SOUTH SOUTH aims to support the arts ecology — on both a local and a global level — addressing an imbalance in the current artworld framework which overwhelmingly privileges thedominantartworldcentres.ConceivedbyGoodmanGallery and guided by a founder circle of galleries, the initiative looks to share the influence they enjoy by extending an international platform to galleries operating across geopolitically diverse and less familiar territories, shifting perspectives to decentre the art world and broaden its focus.

The first edition of VEZA features 50+ galleries from more than 40 cities spread across 30 countries and 5 continents, coming together in their dedication to art of the Global South.