Joni Brenner's in-depth artistic response to an almost three-million-year-old skull comes to light in a new exhibition at the extensive high-tech science and art museum, Origins Centre. Sat, Oct 26 – end Apr, 2025. 

To be exact, what do you get following intense artistic engagement with a scientific subject – the 2.5–2.8-million-year-old Taung skull, which was discovered in 1924? Joni Brenner's solo exhibition at Origins Centre, Impact, encapsulates her long-term creative reckoning with the skull, broadly exploring themes of "fragility and survival, destruction and creation, uncertainty, loss, pressure, and chance". Unusual, beautiful, and thought-provoking are a few more words that come to mind when describing Brenner's response to this ancient piece of the story of human evolution.

Impact opens at Origins Centre on Sat, Oct 26 from 11:00 – 14:00. The opening is free to attend; RSVP by emailing tammy.hodgskiss@wits.ac.za. The solo continues its run until end Apr, 2025.