‘To Have and To Hold’
On show at The Kim Sacks Gallery, Johannesburg
29th of November 2025 - 21st of February 2026
“To Have and to Hold brings together artists working in clay, wood, and fibre, exploring the enduring significance of the vessel form — the container, the carrier, the object that holds. Across cultures and histories, vessels have served as symbols of care, sustenance, and continuity. They shelter, protect, and preserve; they are both functional and deeply emotional, embodying the gestures of the hands that made them and the hands that continue to use, repair, or cherish them.
This exhibition asks how acts of mending, repairing, weaving, joining, and shaping reflect broader practices of care — care for material, for memory, and for the world we inhabit. The works gathered here celebrate the slow, attentive processes of hand-making that resist disposability and affirm connection through touch, time, and attention.
Through clay, wood, and fibre, To Have and to Hold traces a quiet yet profound dialogue between the body and the earth, between tradition and renewal. Each artist’s contribution becomes part of a collective meditation on intimacy — on how we hold and are held by the things that accompany us, and how craft sustains relationships between people, objects, and the living material world.”
