If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future

Newcomb Art Museum – Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

March 21 – June 20, 2025

Parade of shadows, Paul Emmanuel, 2009. Manière noire stone lithograph, hand printed, hand coloured, signed, numbered and dated by the artist. Black lithographic ink and watercolour pigment on 285 gsm Fabriano Rosaspina Avorio paper, 81 x 158 cm (unframed). Edition 35

If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future highlights work from the Nando’s collection that was created in South Africa between 1948 and 2020. This exhibition underscores the collection’s extensive holdings in portraiture, cityscapes, landscapes, and abstraction. The artwork on view shapes an understanding of the South African milieu and its transformation over the last seventy years. They also offer insight into multi-generational views on life and placemaking. Read more.