This fascinating group exhibition at leading Joburg contemporary art gallery Goodman Gallery is themed around mass surveillance in modern society. How To Disappear examines the pervasive methods and technologies of surveillance that surround us, including both subtle and overt practices of racial profiling in public spaces, aerial surveillance, and the silent gathering of algorithmic and digital data.

In a variety of media including photography, film and a mix of analogue and digital imaging technologies, the exhibition reflects on how various surveillance methods see people as visible and visualised subjects. At the same time the exhibition also strives to reclaim a sense of autonomy, by revealing how these technologies might be turned towards forms of resistance and cheating the system.

Featured artists include Polish artist and designer Ewa Nowak presenting her series Incognito (2018), London based Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, whose series of portraits Spirit is a Bone (2013) is on display and the late David Goldblatt's photographic series While in Traffic, Johannesburg (1967) as well as American artist and filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary's 2015 film An Ecstatic Experience which explores the legacy of black resistance.