Listings(s)
Solo Exhibitions
Tracey Derrick, Elsabe Milandri and Lynette Bester at AVA'Stalking the Familiar'
Lynette Bester explores materiality and meaning through a body of predominantly sculptural pieces that hinge on the notion that meaning can be challenged by subjecting objects to a process which not only physically deconstructs them but also de-contextualizes them from their expected environments. In 'Stalking the Familiar' Bester aims to expose ordinary experience through interrogating the familiar and banal. Her strategy challenges the idea of the artist as isolated genius in a contemporary society, and invites others not only to view, but to participate in her process.
'One in Nine'
"One in nine women will contract breast cancer in South Africa. I am therefore the 'one in nine'. This exhibition showcases portraiture - including self-portraiture and that of eight women who too were diagnosed with the illness … This story is about medical body transformations, changes and challenges and the fluidity of our identity … It is fundamentally a story of survival, of celebration and the depth of the human spirit." Tracey Derrick, July 2010
Tracey Derrick employs the Long gallery with a photographic exploration of breast cancer, its treatment and survival.
'Diagram for Change'
Elsabé Milandri presents a mixed media body of work that explores the landscape of contemporary femininity with intimacy and irony. Working on paper, diagrammatic representation meets journal, revealing ambiguous narratives, sometimes subversive, sometimes poetic. Milandri's subject matter includes infants, conservation, BP, toys and family.
To be opened by Liza Grobler
18 October 2010 - 12 November 2010