Listing(s)

'Mainly Benoni. And Paintings.'

Jessica Webster at NiROX PROJECTS at Arts on Main

Following her 2011 residency at the Nirox Foundation, Webster shows a new body of work, which continues to investigate the ways in which a painting can be said to exists in two states simultaneously. In one instance, a painting exists as a physical entity, pigments on canvas that create a textured and layered physical surface. In a other instance, painting is a presentation of subject matter, a metaphorical translation of objects, emotions and themes into a tableau.

22 January 2012 - 24 February 2012

'Exit Exile'

Michele Mathison at NiROX PROJECTS at Arts on Main

Contemporary Southern Africa forms an example of a distinct, and new social condition. One in which a political border defines two different political incarnations of African democracy, and one that has created a vast, transient community of displaced.

For over a decade, Michele Mathison has been living and working on both sides of this border between South Africa and Zimbabwe. In this new body of work, he catalogues how practical objects have become symbols of the region's tumultuous times.

18 June 2011 - 11 July 2011

'Murder on 7th'

Gabrielle Goliath at NiROX PROJECTS at Arts on Main

The 'mistress of crime writing', PD James, once noted that 'what the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order'.

In this exhibition Gabrielle Goliath considers how South Africans mediate the trauma of crime through morbidly fascinated retelling; she also considers the impulse to reach closure in the wake of crime's assault on the collective psyche.

This exhibition is presented by MAKER.

03 February 2011 - 27 February 2011