Natasha Norman

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Further Fictions

Natasha Norman at Commune.1

Commune.1 gallery, Cape Town’s new kid on the block, has had a solid run of engaging shows since it opened six months ago in a renovated double-volume building that once functioned as a morgue. This city-centre venue, which fits somewhere between the smaller project spaces and more established commercial galleries, has proven especially useful for graduate students whose degree exhibitions do not quite fit the parameters of existing gallery spaces.

Natasha Norman’s first solo show, 'Further Fictions', was exhibited in completion of her Masters degree at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, and was shown alongside Johannesburg artist Robyn Nesbitt’s smaller project 'Damn your eyes, damn your eyes'.

29 November 2011 - 25 December 2011

Further Fictions

Natasha Norman at Commune.1

Commune.1 gallery, Cape Town’s new kid on the block, has had a solid run of engaging shows since it opened six months ago in a renovated double-volume building that once functioned as a morgue. This city-centre venue, which fits somewhere between the smaller project spaces and more established commercial galleries, has proven especially useful for graduate students whose degree exhibitions do not quite fit the parameters of existing gallery spaces.

Natasha Norman’s first solo show, 'Further Fictions', was exhibited in completion of her Masters degree at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, and was shown alongside Johannesburg artist Robyn Nesbitt’s smaller project 'Damn your eyes, damn your eyes'.

29 November 2011 - 25 December 2011

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'Damn your eyes, damn your eyes' and 'Further Fictions'

Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman at Commune.1

Damn your eyes, damn your eyes and Further Fictions is a joint exhibition that explores the visual languages and conversations of two artists, Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman, who live and work in two different cities. In a conscious collaboration via email and the South African postal service they have endeavored to derive a joint yet evolving narrative space for their individual practices. This is the first exhibition to incorporate this collaboration.

Natasha Norman has an enduring interest in media culture and technology. Further Fictions, completed for her Masters in Fine Art at UCT (2011), is a meticulous meditation on the appropriation and re-production of visual information through the various reproductive processes of film, photography and print. Her work is a subtle engagement with the serial dynamic of filmic images and the hidden matrices of technological ‘sight.’

Nesbitt’s interest lies in the observation of the everyday, with her work focusing on a personal desire and need to draw out what is overlooked. Taking its title from Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel ‘To The Lighthouse’, Damn your eyes, damn your eyes focuses on the process of gathering and constructing an imagined space in relation to the illusion of time. These ideas of landscapes that exist in ones mind, yet cannot be found, are at the beginning stages of an ongoing narrative.

29 November 2011 - 25 December 2011