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Berlin-based writer and curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung has done it again. Affectionately known as Bona to friends and colleagues, he is one of several external curators to collaborate with the Goodman Gallery team—and this time, he’s transformed both the Johannesburg and Cape Town spaces.

'A Different Now Is Close Enough To Exhale On You' is a provocation; a reminder and a statement of the insurmountable pain that comes before great joy can manifest. And, indeed, without joy, there is no camaraderie and without that, there are no comrades and friends. The exhibition is an ode to a simple truth that working together, giving and nurturing, is life.