Listing(s)

'Vlakplaas'

Renzske Scholtz at AVA

Renzske Scholtz presents Vlakplaas in the Main gallery.  In 1979 Scholtz's grandfather sold his farm whose name 'Vlakplaas' (Shallow farm) had, for years, signalled the flat, peaceful plains of the Highveld, to the State Security Department. He did not know that it would become the headquarters of the C1 Unit from 1979 to 1993. Operating as a parliamentary hit squad, the C1 unit captured political opponents of the government, tortured them and then either turned them, making them Askaris or executed them. This exhibition examines the ways in which land can become transformed by the events that it bears witness to. Vlakplaas the exhibition confronts both the artists irrepressible attachment to an ancestral home and the ways in which land itself can appear changed, not by any physical alteration, but by the events that occur on it.

07 May 2012 - 01 June 2012

'Didn't want to be your Ghost'

Natasja Maria Fourie at AVA

In Didn't want to be your Ghost, Fourie offers the viewer insight into a collection of intimate moments. The exhibition hangs like a poem of photographs in which Fourie explores her personal curiosities and fears. Gravitating towards content that scrutinizes the complexities of companionship, intimacy and the vulnerability of the human body, Fourie’s images capture how we share our thoughts, feelings, lives and bodies. Fourie and her subjects are at times perfumed with a spray of sentiment, emotion, fantasy, and in other instances they are stripped raw, reflecting realties of decay, mortality and ruin.

07 May 2012 - 01 June 2012

'Rewind'

Khaya Sineyile at AVA

Khaya Sinyile presents Rewind in the Artsstrip. When your arm stretched over your head, can touch your ear, then you can go to school. Throw your baby teeth onto the roof of the house, and then your grand mother will bring you new ones. These are the transient processes, child hood rituals, games and stories Sineyile remembers from his youth. Rewind is a body of paintings that rework the stylised visual language of the cartoons Sineyile watched as a child. Through this series of paintings, Sineyile rewinds, retells and reviews remembrances from a childhood passed with wit, whimsy and humour.

07 May 2012 - 01 June 2012

'Wired World'

Catherine Sassoon at AVA

Catherine Sassoon presents Wired World,a photographic exploration of technologies ability to connect and disconnect us from our world, and each other. Wires hang like existential questions on the vistas of buildings and across landscapes. Sassoon creates a tension in her images through the stillness she captures and the modernity the images represent. Documenting with a wry humour our connectedness whilst communicating a desolation, isolation and loneliness, Sassoon’s images lyrically seduce the viewer to take a journey through the modern world and into ourselves.

10 April 2012 - 04 May 2012

'STOP / AND / GO'

Various Artists at AVA

STOP / AND / GO is presented by the artist collective Iliso Labantu and FOTO Project Space, an artist-run platform for disadvantaged artists. The exhibition has been the outcome of FOTO Project Space’s mission to provide an opportunity for township-based photographers to create work that they are intimately invested in, thereby challenging clichéd themes oftentimes imposed on their work.STOP / AND / GO is a photographic exhibition that explores everyday rhythms and patterns within various townships in the Western Cape. By walking along train tracks, riding donkey trolleys, attending parking lot fashion events, following neighbourhood characters, and going to the shebeen, five township-based photographers reveal the familiar nuances of their surroundings.

Artists included are: Masixole Feni, Brice Kimbembe, Sipho Mpongo, Wandile Tonga, Lindeka Qampi

10 April 2012 - 04 May 2012