Photography as a listening tool: Beata America puts it all on record

Photography is doing more than documenting at this year’s Investec Cape Town Art Fair. It’s listening. Through her curated Cabinet section, Record, curator Beata America approaches the camera not as a silent observer but as a sensory instrument capable of holding memory, vibration and emotional residue.

For America, who is based in Cape Town and works as an assistant curator at Zeitz MOCAA, the project is personal. Long before she entered the visual arts, she was classically trained in music...