I Find You All Around Me at THK Gallery Cape Town, brings together the practices of Driaan Claassen and Karla Nixon in an exhibition that considers the sublime not as transcendence beyond the self, but as a condition of intimate and destabilising proximity.
Borrowing its title from a poem by the 12th-century Persian mystic Hakim Sanai, the exhibition reflects on forms of presence that evade fixed definition while continuing to structure perception, embodiment, and emotional experience.
Driaan Claassen, Opening The Heart, 2024 (detail)
Across three floors, the exhibition unfolds as a gradual movement from fragmentation toward immersion. While materially and formally distinct, both artists explore bodies under pressure: the psychological body and the elemental body; the internal landscape and the natural world. Together, their works suggest that certain presences cannot be fully perceived, as they are already embedded within and around us.
WHAT: I Find You All Around Me
WHERE: THK Gallery Cape Town, 52 Waterkant Street, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Opening 3 June 2026 | Tues – Fri 10:00 – 18:00 Sat 10:00 – 14:00
INFO: T 021 470 0178 | E office@thkgallery.com | VISIT | Preview Here
LEAD PHOTO: Karla Nixon, Untethered 1, 2026
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