The House at TwilSharp Studios, Johannesburg
Featuring
June Lam
Buhlebezwe Siwani
Elizabeth McInnes
Rebecca Haysom
Io Makandal
Niels Bekkema
Shadow Sites at Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne
Examining the relationship between artwork, its documentation, and viewing spaces, Shadow Sites explores how art is understood both within and outside of the gallery. Blurring the boundary between the places artworks are put to rest and those where they are set on stage, the exhibitions are presented across two locations—Centre for Contemporary Photography and a nearby storage unit.
Featuring
Leuli Eshraghi
Catherine Evans
Grace Herbert
Sophie Neate
James Tylor
Rudi Williams
Elmedin Zunic
Concerted Efforts at West Space, Melbourne
Concerted efforts is a collective project, reflecting on authorship, the cult of the curator and the group exhibition as format. The project will compile and present the work of collaborative art groups from South Africa and Australia, incorporating and problematising our transnational context. By presenting diverse and multiple practices, the project aims to examine the varying approaches to collaboration in contemporary art, without wanting to subsume them under a single model of activity.
Featuring
Catherine or Kate
Robyn Nesbitt and Nina Barnett
Morne Visage and Mbongeni Dlamini
Museum in a Cupboard (MIAC)
Citizen Coombs
Phase Space, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne
The artists in Phase Space examine the tensions and possibilities of urban space through virtual and filmic representations. Contemporary sociological accounts of urban space advance the notion of a ‘mobility turn.’ By this account, life, and urban life in particular, is conceived as sets of relations between people, objects, signs and systems. The city may be conceived in terms of dense relations between these social elements, each of which are themselves in constant circulation, and in shifting relations with one another. However, these relational elements are also subject to confinement, thereby challenging neoliberal claims to a smooth space of free and unhindered action. These forces of movement and containment operate in a field termed a ‘phase space’. This exhibition proceeds by examining how images structure an understanding of lived reality, specifically urban realities, while also positing alternative experiences, rather than simply reflecting the status quo.
Featuring
CUSS Group
Firas Shehadeh
Gerald Machona
Joe Hamilton
Larissa Sansour
