'Kotiljons'
Niklas Zimmer at Wembley Project SpaceNiklas 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 - 08 June













