Niklas Zimmer

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'Into the Night'

Niklas Zimmer at Salon 91

Into the Night by Niklas Zimmer is a collection of long-exposure, film-based photographs taken at night in Cape Town. In this series of nudes, still lifes and cityscapes, Niklas Zimmer has used the night and the process of photographing with long exposures as an allegorical backdrop for a politics of personal path-finding through ambivalent terrains of consciousness.

30 May 2012 - 23 June 2012

'Kotiljons'

Niklas Zimmer at Wembley Project Space

Niklas Zimmer shows a collection of photographs, curated by Jacqueline Nurse, titled Kotiljons. A collaboration between Zimmer and Willemien Froneman, a PhD candidate at Stellenbosch University, the photographs were commissioned to form the basis of a chapter of Froneman’s Ph.D. project in ethnomusicology. As such they form “a photo essay (and sometimes visual ethnography) on the carnivalesque at a contemporary boeremusiek event” (WF) – namely the 21st anniversary celebrations of the Boeremusiekgilde, held in 2010 at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. The result is a group portrait spanning a number of generations – illustrating both the burden of history and the demands of the present. With Kotiljons, iArt presents a selection of this body of work.

11 May 2011 - 08 June 2011