About

 

Farhana Jacobs is a mixed media artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Her work explores femininity, motherhood, mysticism and the ordinary.

It unapologetically concerns itself with the relationship women have with their surroundings, with themselves, and how they navigate hostile external structures of patriarchy and limiting belief systems. In her work, women’s bodies are often presented as a terrain of contestation – as landscapes upon which these hostile surroundings and contexts are re-purposed and re-imagined.


EXHIBITIONS

Gallery 2 (solo) - “Imprints”, Johannesburg, October 2023

Latitudes Online (group) - “Reshape 22-Future Art Histories”, online, September-October 2022

Turbine Art Fair - Johannesburg, July 2022

Bubblegum Club (group) - “Re-imaged” Bubblegum gallery, Johannesburg, July 2022

Turbine Art Fair Paper (group) - Victoria Yards, Johannesburg, May - June 2022

Turbine Art Fair Paper (group) - Design Joburg, May 2022

AFRICA.NXT art pavilion (NFT art group) - Lagos Nigeria, February 2022

The Point of Order (group) - as part of the “Rapture Institute” curated by Zara Julius, September 2019


MEDIA

Latitudes Online - “Interview with Farhana Jacobs”

Rosebank Gazette article “ First solo exhibition for Farhana Jacobs at Gallery 2”

IOL Article - “LOOK: Joburg women-centric artists eye top honours at inaugural art award which seeks to recognise female artists in SA”, August 2022

AWARDS

Latitudes and ANNA Award, top 12 finalist 2022

 

Contact

 

studiofarhanajacobs@gmail.com