'Venus at Home'
Usha Seejarim at Johannesburg Art GalleryUsha Seejarim's 'Venus at Home', a touring museum exhibition, opens at Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Venus at Home is an intensely personal project, in which the artist aims to explore the places she finds herself in and the various roles she undertakes.
Explaining her previous work Seejarim states, 'The trajectory of my work shows a fascination with the everyday. Subsequent works have used household and ordinary objects like toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, bus tickets, soap bars, kwiklocks (plastic clips that close bread packet), earbuds, stoep polish and safety pins. The everyday features also in video works where the practice of daily activities has been explored. Works have been made about daily travel to work and back, washing dishes, mowing the lawn and making roti'.
'As a home-maker/housewife/mother of two, and an artist, I seem to straddle between daily chores like washing the dishes or changing diapers to the seemingly glamorous act of making art. These two distinctly female roles in my own life are coming together in this body of work that uses ordinary household objects as materials to create a series of sculptures and installations.'
10 February - 12 May
