About
Established in June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, ESCAP3 Gallery was founded as a solution to assist artists of Africa and its Diaspora.
ESCAP3 Gallery showcases both emerging and established contemporary artists of Africa its Diaspora, who are often still experimenting with different mediums and interests but who all reflect on identity and their relationship with their environment whilst navigating young democracies in a Post-Colonial and Post-Slavery landscape.
We believe that artists should continue to intensely and freely investigate their various creative research and practice, whilst the gallery administers and represents their brand with the integrity and respect it deserves. ESCAP3 Gallery serves as agent to the artists.
ESCAP3 Gallery is a proud Member of the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA), an Affiliate of the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA) as well as an Associate Member of the Association for Visual Arts (AVA).
ESCAP3 Gallery Consulting Curator
Moshumee Dewoo is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, working on the Locating Global Protest against the Extreme Right: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Racism, and Internationalism in Multiethnic Metropoles (LGP) project, led by Principal Investigator Kasper Braskén and funded by the Research Council of Finland (Project number 355478; 2023–2027).
Dewoo’s academic journey spans various disciplines—including politics, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, literature, technology, communication, and art—, each informing her critical scholarship. Her research, which she solidified during her PhD at the University of Cape Town, explores the history of emancipation in African and diasporic societies throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Her work highlights how these societies both shape and are shaped by global political and historical processes, offering new insights into their role in global resistance movements and transformations that showcase the global interconnectedness of struggles for freedom and autonomy.
In alignment with her research, Dewoo has taught extensively at the University of Cape Town, guiding undergraduate and postgraduate students through a broad range of themes including the processes and legacies of emancipation, memory and narrative construction, language and identity, race and class dynamics, gender and power relations, post-colonial critique, urbanism in post-colonial societies, and the socio-political movements that have emerged in African and diasporic contexts. Her teaching engages with global political processes and highlights the role of resistance within frameworks of power and oppression.
Dewoo is a consulting curator with ESCAP3 Gallery, South Africa, where she contributes to exhibitions that address issues of socio-political change and artistic expression within the context of African resistance movements. Her curatorial work bridges academic insights with visual and performance art, providing a platform for reflecting on and challenging historical and contemporary narratives of resistance and identity.