SOFT HORIZONS – New Visions of the African Landscape

OOA Gallery presents SOFT HORIZONS – New Visions of the African Landscape, a summer group exhibition bringing together Olivia Mae Pendergast, Megan Gabrielle Harris, and Miska Mohmmed to explore landscape as a space of memory, imagination, contemplation, and emotional experience in contemporary African and diasporic art.

About the Exhibition

SOFT HORIZONS – New Visions of the African Landscape brings together three artists whose works expand the meaning of landscape beyond the representation of place. Presented by OOA Gallery during the summer season in Sitges, the exhibition explores how landscape can become a site of memory, projection, interiority, and transformation.

Featuring works by Olivia Mae Pendergast, Megan Gabrielle Harris, and Miska Mohmmed, the exhibition proposes a softer and more contemplative vision of the African landscape. Here, the landscape is not approached as scenery or geography alone, but as an emotional field: a space shaped by recollection, movement, atmosphere, and the intimate experience of belonging.

Across luminous horizons, imagined gardens, quiet fields, and fluid terrains, SOFT HORIZONS invites viewers to consider landscape as something both seen and remembered. The works gathered in the exhibition move between observation and reverie, between the physical world and the inner landscapes carried by the artists themselves.

Megan Gabrielle Harris, landscape often becomes a place of escape, restoration, and self-possession. Her Afro-surrealist practice places figures within dreamlike natural environments, where softness, beauty, and calm operate as forms of resistance. In her work, the landscape is not passive background; it becomes an extension of emotional life, offering space for Black women to inhabit freedom, rest, and interior power.

For Olivia Mae Pendergast’s landscapes are marked by stillness, delicacy, and a deep sensitivity to atmosphere. Her paintings suggest places suspended between nature and contemplation, where colour, light, and simplified forms create a sense of quiet presence. Rather than describing a specific location, her works open onto a meditative space in which landscape becomes a language of attention and feeling.

Miska Mohmmed approaches landscape through memory, displacement, and transformation. Born in Sudan and shaped by movement between Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, she constructs vibrant “mindscapes” that merge remembered places with intuitive invention. Rivers, deserts, skies, vegetation, and architectural traces dissolve into fields of colour and rhythm, creating landscapes that feel at once grounded and imagined.

Together, these three artists challenge conventional expectations of African landscape painting. Their works do not present the land as an exotic view or fixed territory. Instead, they reveal landscape as a living and unstable space: a place of memory, migration, introspection, desire, and poetic reconstruction.

With SOFT HORIZONS, OOA Gallery continues its commitment to presenting contemporary African and diasporic practices through curatorial propositions that are both visually refined and conceptually grounded. The exhibition invites viewers to look beyond the horizon as a line of distance, and to encounter it instead as a threshold between place, memory, and imagination.

Further Reading

The themes explored in SOFT HORIZONS resonate with broader conversations around diaspora, memory, movement, and transnational identity in contemporary African art.

For further reflection, readers may explore OOA Gallery’s insight: Diaspora, Identity and Transnational Narratives in Contemporary African Art.

Exhibition Details

• Dates: July 25 – August 30, 2026
• Location: OOA Gallery, Sitges (near Barcelona), Spain
• Artists: Olivia Mae Pendergast, Megan Gabrielle Harris, Miska Mohmmed
• Inquiries: Prices & availability on request