In her book Zoo City, Lauren Beukes's characters explore a grimy, dystopian Johannesburg. Through magical-realism and "animalled" people in the book, we experience the primal electricity that statics beneath the inner-city streets. The latest exhibition at Nirox Projects in Maboneng, entitled ZOO, taps into the same gritty energy of the urban jungle, while at the same time bringing into question the meaning of the word "zoo", both in the literal sense, and, to a lesser degree, the figurative, too.