Form & Fable. Private View

Critical fabulation, a term coined by writer and cultural historian Saidiya Hartman, names a practice of holding space for history, theory, and imagination to coexist. It animates the silences and ruptures that shadow collective memory, where many lives go unrecorded, misnamed, or lost within the brutal architectures of slavery and colonialism.

Form & Fable invites you to engage with critical fabulation as a practice of reclaiming the freedom to imagine and tending to the lives the archive could not hold. Rather than dwelling on the supposed falsities of fable, we affirm creative storytelling as an act of radical love and care. Moving through form, language, and sound, artists Ramone "K" Anderson, Natasha Muluswela, Thuthukani Myeza, Chiedu Okonta, Tomilola Olumide, Henrique J. Paris, Chandni Raithatha & Yvann Zahui, Manyi Takor, and Neusa Trovoada unravel the continuum of past, present, and future.