Landline Exhibition

This exhibition was held at the Cape Institute for Architecture (CIfA) in 2025. It presented a series of artworks and projects which together make up an image of Nassimbeni’s thesis as an architect, educator and conceptual artist. At the centre of this body of work exist ideas represented by drawings created at the outset of the creative journey. The term ‘concept’ relates to the word ‘idea’, but can also speak of time and process. An idea often signifies the advent of something, its beginning. In Nassimbeni’s practice ideas begin as drawings, the lines of which extend into a process culminating in a spatial speculation, conversation or intervention. This exhibition intends to render this notion visible, and to allow the viewer to occupy the thought processes which support the work. Viewed from a distance or in granular detail, the work on exhibition communicates the idea of landscape, place, and space with the use of graphic line, shape, and form. There are many ways one may communicate with a physical environment. To engage with it visually, to draw it, is to know it - and to form an idea which may generate new knowledge.