{"id":393,"date":"2026-04-27T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/cinga-samson-ukuphuthelwa-white-cube-gallery-nyc\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:50:40","slug":"cinga-samson-ukuphuthelwa-white-cube-gallery-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/cinga-samson-ukuphuthelwa-white-cube-gallery-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinga Samson &#8220;Ukuphuthelwa&#8221; @ White Cube Gallery, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juxtapoz.com\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/effdf65bcd6feba6cfff85ca501fc434_L.jpg\" alt=\"Cinga Samson \"Ukuphuthelwa\" @ White Cube Gallery, NYC\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">South African artist Cinga Samson\u2019s exhibition of new paintings is titled \u2018Ukuphuthelwa\u2019, an isiXhosa word in the artist\u2019s native language that translates as \u2018unable to sleep\u2019. Unlike the English word \u2018insomnia\u2019, the isiXhosa term carries no negative connotation and accordingly, for Samson, sleeplessness is not a condition to be cured but a state of spiritual alertness, a sensitivity that deepens in the dark. Rendered in the artist\u2019s signature occluded palette of near-blacks, carbon and deep Prussian blues, Samson\u2019s scenes depict men-like figures, dogs in overgrown fields and portraits of plant life native to South Africa. Encouraging slow, contemplative looking, a sense of existential gravity pervades Samson\u2019s new series of oil paintings, attempting to depict a vast reality that is continuously&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African artist Cinga Samson\u2019s exhibition of new paintings is titled \u2018Ukuphuthelwa\u2019, an isiXhosa word in the artist\u2019s native language that translates as \u2018unable to sleep\u2019. Unlike the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brittanyhouseactivcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}