​As a response to the conference and the systemic harms of 'slow violence', the Slow Intimacy exhibitions bring together the art and design of select artists and jewellers as a means of cultivating 'slow hope'. Reaching across three Stellenbosch venues (GUS, IS Art and Oude Leeskamer), the exhibitions express the slow intimacies involved in the making of art but also engage intimacy as subject. The exhibitions are a collaboration between the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University and the curators at the satellite venues.

In Slow Intimacy I (GUS), for instance, the artists and jewellers are bound together by strategies of nesting, resting, collage and collecting, especially in relation to 'home' as a place of bodily intimacies. Here the art of Sitaara Stodel, Stephané Edith Conradie, Nomusa Mtshali and Anne Lacheiner-Kuhn is in conversation with the fine art jewellery of Carine Terreblanche, Joani Groenewald, Mariambibi Khan and students of the Jewellery Design division at the Visual Arts Department of Stellenbosch University.

In the work of each artist, one sees a tentative answer to the question of whether pace too is a political problem.  

The exhibitions open at 18:00 at GUS on Wednesday the 12^th of October. Gabeba Baderoon will open the exhibitions. Viewers can walk from there to the other exhibition spaces after a glass of wine. There is also a walk-about at GUS on Thursday the 13^th of October at 17:00.