Frances Goodman

Current Review(s)

'Morbid Appetites'

Frances Goodman at Goodman Gallery Cape

In her installation MINDONTHEMONEY, Frances Goodman satirizes both the iconic creators of luxury branded goods and those whose insatiable desire for these objects leads them to buy backstreet knockoffs at a fraction of the price.

All across Europe, immigrants from Africa, struggling to survive, sell belts, sunglasses, and particularly handbags, all copied from the brands which dominate the pages of Vogue down to the famous logos. These illicit wares are transported in suitcases and carrybags, so the itinerant salesman are ready to pack up and run at the first sign of the police.

MINDONTHEMONEY, then, echoes just such a scene.

12 November 2009 - 12 December 2009

Till death us do part

Frances Goodman at Goodman Gallery

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.

-    Virginia Woolf

The Goodman Gallery on Jan Smuts Road, Johannesburg, is a stately venue for a wedding reception. Its hollowed, white cube halls seem naturally suited to the jubilant chatter and feverish celebration associated with such events, with champagne the logical drink to fuel the party.

09 April 2011 - 07 May 2011

Listings(s)

'Morbid Appetites'

Frances Goodman at Goodman Gallery Cape

In 'Morbid Appetites', Frances Goodman extends her interest in obsessive behaviour, examining the relationship between consumerism and dependency. Consisting of sculptures, installation and sound pieces, the exhibition explores how simple activities like eating, shopping and taking medicine can become dangerously pathological within a contemporary culture of excess.

12 November 2009 - 12 December 2009

'Till Death Us Do Part'

Frances Goodman at Goodman Gallery

In her latest solo show, Frances Goodman explores the terrain of our deep-seated obsessions, particularly those 'triggered by social prescription'. Through immersive sound pieces and mixed media works, Goodman examines the pressures, anxieties and expectations women experience, and in turn begin to exert on themselves.

09 April 2011 - 07 May 2011

'Forever'

Frances Goodman at KZNSA

Fresh from a succesful show at the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, Goodman's multi-disciplinary take on the mythologies of matrimony arrives at the main gallery KZNSA. From wishful thinking to venomous revenge, Goodman explores the caustic banalities of marriage.

 

28 June 2011 - 23 July 2011