South South: A World Seen from the South
Goodman Gallery’s newest iteration of its curatorial initiative South South brings together cross-border dialogue through quarterly, curated online exhibitions, the first of which is so I inhaled spring, launching in April 2026. Presenting work available from and beyond the gallery roster, this ongoing series fosters exchange and explores reflections on history, our contemporary context and art-making from the perspective of the Global South.
South South is a long-term curatorial initiative of Goodman Gallery, conceived as a framework for exchange across the Global South and beyond, grounded in the understanding that South-South dialogue is inherently plural, mobile, and unfinished. Launched in 2015, the programme began as an exchange between South Africa and Brazil, combining exhibition-making with research travel, artist residencies, and transatlantic production, and later expanding to include artists across Africa and Latin America through major exhibitions and film programmes in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
In 2021, South South was reimagined as a collaborative online platform, enabling the initiative to enact its founding vision at scale and marking a conceptual shift toward the Global Majority – foregrounding cultural producers who constitute the majority of the world’s population yet remain structurally marginalised within dominant Euro-American art circuits. Through publicly accessible exhibitions, talks, and film programmes, alongside collaborations with non-profits, museums, art fairs, foundations, and independent curators across Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, South South has fostered horizontal exchange and expanded access to critical discourse and time-based practices.
so I inhaled spring is a group exhibition about materiality, temporality and lineage, featuring work by twelve artists from around the world with a focus on artists from or connected to the Global South. Works throughout the exhibition borrow from and respond to historical references, mythology and contextually-formulated visual languages