Johannesburg-based collaborative MADEYOULOOK, the creative partnership between Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho, presents the exhibition 'Mafolofolo' at Hangar – Artistic Research Centre in Lisbon. The show uses immersive sonic installations, oral histories, liberation songs, and long-term research into land dispossession in Southern Africa to explore how memory persists across generations. Through call-and-response structures, archival songs, and collective storytelling, the exhibition foregrounds knowledge carried through ritual, naming practices, and everyday acts of care, addressing histories of displacement and ecological severance.
'Mafolofolo' matters because it reframes repair not as the recovery of what has been lost but as an ongoing, unfinished process of rebuilding connections and imagining more just futures. By centering overlooked Black everyday experiences and the enduring relationships between people, land, and the more-than-human world, the exhibition challenges dominant narratives of ownership and extraction. It offers a model for how sound can serve as both archive and method for collective memory, connecting past struggles to present resistance and proposing repair as a continual practice of return.