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‘The Void: positive and negative spaces’ 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Commune.1 presents Christopher Swift’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. “If you think it’ll be a success…or not, you’re right” Swift has chosen the above statement as the golden thread to we...
'Out of Site' 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
As the pun in the title implies, the show takes both sight- as in vision- and site- as in place- as starting points to generate a dialogue between new and older works from the artist’s extensive oeuvr...
Umhlaba 1913-2013 22 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
'The people buried Mngoma against the will of the white farmers next to his grandfather. The bones continued the fight beyond the grave' – Andile Mngxitama 'As the voyeuristic camera made its incursi...
'The Grass is Burning' 19 Aug 2013 | 12:03 am
Photographer Martine Kolner (Kairos Photography) went to South Africa on a number of occasions on behalf of SEEtrust. She photographed the living and working conditions of people in settlements and to...
'Ecstatic Entropy' 18 Aug 2013 | 06:46 pm
Whatiftheworld presents 'Ecstatic Entropy', an exhibition of new paintings by South African artist John Murray. Using the term entropy as a starting point to frame this body of work, Murray has create...
'The Difference Loom' 18 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
'The Difference Loom', showing at the Iziko Annex, is a visual contemporary art exhibition exploring textiles and technology. We sense the body in textiles, but not in technology. We discern the analy...
'Ke lefa laka' 15 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
The Tierney Fellowship at the Market Photo Workshop in partnership with the Tierney Family Foundation was awarded to alumni Lebohang Kganye for 2012/2013. The goal of this project is to award an a...
'Have you seen Him?' 15 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
The title of the exhibition references fabled sayings by Mullah Nasiruddin, the 13th century Seljuq satirical Sufi who is often referred to as 'the wise fool'. Adams identifies with the populist philo...
'New Paintings' 15 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
Stevenson presents a solo exhibition by Zander Blom. This is his fourth show at Stevenson, and the third simply titled 'New Paintings'. Blom describes the current state of his practice: In painting ...
The Borderlands 14 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Walking past the station in Cape Town last week, I noticed that several burly-looking municipal workers, holding large crowbars, were standing on the dismantled remains of the war memorial. I went ov...
