Anton Kannemeyer: A Dreadful Thing Is About To Occur

In his second solo exhibition at Michael Stevenson, Anton Kannemeyer takes on the polemics of race to explore an array of fears, misconceptions  and stereotypes that polarize the debate around race in South Africa on a daily basis. Using a frank humor that belies a dense criticality, Kannemeyer takes as the starting point for many of his images, the gag cartoons from The New Yorker, amongst other sources. In so doing he strategically overlays different socio-political contexts, echoed in his use of visual language which references Hergé's Tintin - the archetypal white settler in Africa.

Zanele Muholi: Indawo Yami

In 'Indawo Yami', which mean 'my place' or 'my space'  Zanele Muholi continues to explore the issues around and implications of being black and queer, which have in recent weeks brought her work under the spotlight when it was denounced by the Minister of Arts and Culture as 'pornographic' and 'offensive'. In contrast the work on show offers a variety of  subtle interpretations of gay culture. This includes 'Being' which quietly celebrates moments of love within the homosexual community between mothers and sons, friends and lovers, 'Beulahs', subversive portraits of gay men and 'Miss Lesbian', in which the artist shows images of herself cast in different roles.

Glenn Ligon: Neither Here Nor There

Glenn Ligon's work engages social and personal histories, memory, and the ways in which groups and individuals are represented, in such a way revealing the complexities and subtleties of social constructs of race, language, sexuality and gender. The work on show is a combination of recent and new work, and presents a series of encounters with or within Africa. It references James Baldwin's 'Stranger in a Village', the comedian Richard Prior, and includes the 2008 video The Death of Tom, a re-enactment of Thomas Edison's silent-film from 1903.

Nare Mokgotho: Someday Today

In 'Someday Today' Nare Mokgotho extends his project 'Someday Soon', which focused on people who hoard their belongings. For his new work he has invited one of the previous participants to cut, sort and transform her collection of magazines into a personal archive over the first few days of the exhibition.

22 April - 29 May

In his second solo exhibition at Michael Stevenson, Anton Kannemeyer takes on the polemics of race to explore an array of fears, misconceptions  and stereotypes that polarize the debate around race in South Africa on a daily basis. Using a frank humor that belies a dense criticality, Kannemeyer takes as the starting point for many of his images the gag cartoons from The New Yorker, amongst other sources. In so doing he strategically overlays different socio-political contexts, echoed in his use of a visual language which references Hergé's Tintin - the archetypal white settler in Africa.