Artsy has published its monthly survey of noteworthy exhibitions at small and rising galleries, singling out five presentations around the world for the month of October. The roundup, written by Katie White, is part of the platform's ongoing series championing emerging spaces and artists working outside the major museum and mega-gallery circuit. One featured pairing is "Catching," a two-person exhibition at 99 Loop Gallery in Cape Town, on view through October 24. It brings together South African artists Chuma Adam and Siyabonga Fani in what the gallery frames as a meditation on materials and their ties to memory. Adam, born in 2001 and based in Johannesburg, shows monochrome paintings made in acrylic on umbhaco cotton, a textile traditionally used for Xhosa ceremonial garments. Her process is physically demanding, with repeated brushstrokes accumulating into fields of gesture. She earned an honors degree in fine arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2024 and was shortlisted for the Wits Young Artist Award in 2022 and 2023, and her broader practice spans painting, printmaking, textiles, sculpture and drawing, with recurring attention to Blackness, identity and visibility. Fani, born in 1981 in Gugulethu and working in Woodstock, Cape Town, contributes ceramic vessels made from recycled terra-cotta, a material he values for the histories it carries. He has worked with clay since the 1990s, building his works freehand by coiling, and finishes them with glossy surfaces marked by organic cracks and rivulets. He founded Siyabonga Ceramics in 2013, and his work has appeared at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, the Latitudes Art Fair and Homo Faber in Venice in 2024; his first solo exhibition, "Ndim Lo [This Is Me]," opened at Art Formes in Cape Town in 2025. The roundup positions the Cape Town pairing as emblematic of its wider thesis: that small galleries, working closely with artists at formative career stages, continue to surface some of the most compelling viewing of the season.