Catherine Gfeller

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'Passing the City through you'

Wits Art Museum and the Embassy of Switzerland with the support of Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council) are proud to announce the exhibition, ‘Passing the City through you’ by Catherine Gfeller.

In September last year Gfeller undertook a research residency in Johannesburg. Wits Arts Museum will exhibit the videos, photographs, audios and texts created during her stay.
 
Gfeller’s photographic and video work is based on incessantly pulsating urban landscapes and she aims to transform the anonymity of the city through her work, through the intersection of urban landscapes and human presences.
 
Catherine Gfeller incorporates people, buildings, bridges, windows, cars and every other ?xture of urban life into her photography. She walks through cities with her camera in hand, snapping pictures of architecture and pedestrians in their surroundings. There is a sense of immediacy to the images.
 
Visitors can look forward to photographs, videos and sound installations which trace the sensory experience of the city. The exhibition will highlight the inner city of Johannesburg, crawling with activity in the streets, the avenues and the pedestrians who are part of it. The photographs are not merely documentary images, but rather a succession of friezes where images are composed by collage, montage, superimposition; creating a rhythm and a contrast between still and moving images.
 
There will also be an interactive space where viewers will be invited to respond to the exhibition by writing about their experiences and responses to the city. Parts of the exhibition will also be visible via the street facing projection screens of the museum.

24 September 2014 - 09 November 2014