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Odette Marais
Beneath the Surface,
2011.
Oil on Canvas
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'...Dripping away unattended into shadows'
Odette Marais at AVA
Odette Marais presents ...Dripping away unattended into shadows. In this body of work Marais investigates a personal, domestic and emotional time-line using the traditional still-life as vessel. The journey a painter takes when translating inanimate everyday objects into animated and emotionally charged subjects, is a path that offers the gallery viewer an experience of painting that falls somewhere in between the figurative and the abstract. Notions of memory, loss, absence and presence are reflected upon by Marais in this series of bold and compelling paintings.
10 April - 04 May
also showing
Catherine Sassoon
Dazzler,
2011;
Photograph
'Wired World'
Catherine Sassoon
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.
Sipho Mpongo
The Return of Boss (ill-fated Boss),
2012;
Photograph
'STOP / AND / GO'
Various Artists
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