# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 'Afflict The Comfortable, Comfort The Afflicted' | Exhibition Opening
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: You are warmly invited to the Public Opening of Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted, on Thursday, 20 November 2025 at 6 pm. This survey exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Cauleen Smith is curated by Thato Mogotsi, Curator of Contemporary Art at Zeitz MOCAA, and will be on view on Level 3 Silo Side of the museum until Sunday, 4 October 2026.

In her first major presentation on the African continent, Smith’s world-building projects come together in atmospheric installations that offer visitors a layered sensory experience. Short films and videos interact with drawings, sculpted objects, colourful textile banners and the sonic in an expansive exhibition that meditates on the artist’s ongoing concern with Black experimental cinema, Afrocentric aesthetics, Black feminism and the emancipatory uses of the utopic. Smith’s decades-long practice merges her interests in jazz and literature, spirituality, feminism, Afrofuturism and what she calls ‘…the everyday possibilities of the imagination.’

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6 PM | Arrival Drinks & Welcome
Atrium Foyer, Level 0

6.15 PM | Opening Remarks
Dr Greer Valley, Senior Curator & Head of Curatorial Affairs
Thato Mogotsi, Curator
Cauleen Smith, Artist
Atrium Foyer, Level 0

7 PM | Exhibition Walkabout
Level 3 Silo Side
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cape-town/afflict-the-comfortable-comfort-the-afflicted-exhibition-opening/200029194128649
- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, entertainment, fine-arts, music, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 15

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Cape Town
- **state**: WC
- **country**: South Africa
- **location**: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, S Arm road, Silo district, V&A Waterfront, 8001 Cape Town, South Africa
- **lat**: -33.90842
- **long**: 18.42255
- **full address**: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, S Arm road, Silo district, V&A Waterfront, 8001 Cape Town, South Africa, Zeitz Mocaa Food, Re/173714 Silo Sq, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is 'Afflict The Comfortable, Comfort The Afflicted' | Exhibition Opening being held?
  - **A:** 'Afflict The Comfortable, Comfort The Afflicted' | Exhibition Opening takes place on Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, S Arm road, Silo district, V&A Waterfront, 8001 Cape Town, South Africa, Zeitz Mocaa Food, Re/173714 Silo Sq, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa.
- **Q**: Who is organizing 'Afflict The Comfortable, Comfort The Afflicted' | Exhibition Opening?
  - **A:** 'Afflict The Comfortable, Comfort The Afflicted' | Exhibition Opening is organized by Zeitz MOCAA.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** 'Afflict The Comfortable, Comfort The Afflicted' | Exhibition Opening is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Cape Town, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If 'Afflict The Comfortable, Comfort The Afflicted' | Exhibition Opening sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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