Exhibition Opening: KZNSA Annual Members’ Award 2025
The KZNSA gallery is pleased to invite you to the opening of its Annual Members’ Award Show. The theme of the exhibition is Imisinga (Currents). Members were invited to submit submissions under this theme thinking about how water holds memory, movement, and meaning. It is a source of life, ritual, conflict, and celebration. In Durban, water surrounds and sustains us culturally, historically, environmentally but it also reminds us of our vulnerabilities.
Imisinga, meaning currents, speaks to both the visible and invisible forces that shape our lives. It reflects the pull of history, the surge of change, and the fluidity of identity.
The theme invites artists to engage with water in its many forms and contradictions. As we navigate rising seas, floods, pollution, and strained infrastructure, we also witness water’s resilience - its power to renew, connect, and transform.
Prize money and the Joan Emanuel floating trophy are generously sponsored by the Key Foundation and the Joan Emanuel Trust.
First place receives the Joan Emanuel floating trophy, R20,000 and a solo exhibition at the KZNSA in the following year, second place is awarded R10,000 and third place, R5,000. A Merit Award, selected by the KZNSA Exhibition Sub-committee is given to a fourth work.