EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
ZEITZ MOCAA - HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS
Cape Town, Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
ANON POP UP ART SHOW - RISE - 05 December 2019
EXTENDED UNTIL 18 Feb 2020!
Sarah Jane Fell has curated an incredible body of work.
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The show has not only travelled but grown! Now with more than 60 artists, photographers, poets and activists, we have popped up at 44 on Long, a new beautiful venue and theatre space (entrance 44 Long Street upstairs from Tiger's Milk).
Expect profound and compelling visual art by notable South African artists and photographers alongside emerging voices and pop-up performers – each of whom contribute to the important conversation on gender violence that has reached a tipping point in South Africa this year.
All art and prints on the show are available for sale. Original artworks are on silent auction on Thursday night until 10 December. A selection from the show is also available online on anonpopup.com. If you would like to bid on the auction but cannot make it to the show, email me with your offer.
Proceeds of art sales go to Nonceba Family Counselling Centre in Khayelitsha, shelter and counselling centre for abused women and children.
UNFORESEEN LANDSCAPES - JUNE 2019
VIEW GALLERY - OPENING NIGHT
UNFORESEEN LANDSCAPES
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We are at a point in time where the human relationship with the natural world is overly strained, close to breaking point. We are in an age of ‘unforeseen landscapes,’ where the human impact on the planet, and its delicate but incredibly designed ecosystems, is entering unchartered and dangerous territory.
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Far removed from the natural world, the grave sound of silent forests, the sights of dying oceans, where little life remains but green slime, the more than 400 dead zones awaits our comprehesion. Yet disconnection from technology is currently our greatest fear. The average person spends six hours a day investing their emotions into virtual, rather than actual outcomes. We have replaced the instinctual, primal, sights, sounds, smells, feelings, the acoustic and the ether with sheer fantasy. Fantasy is our daily redefined reality. In this exhibition we feature 24 photographers, and their response to the complicated relationship mankind has with the natural world – and the idea that, we do not inherit the world from our ancestors, instead we borrow it from our children. The show is made up of works by both emerging and well-established photographic artists.
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Despite the continuous hype in politics, we have become increasingly passive, much of our activities are automated or remote controlled, requiring minimal physical interaction with our environment. In the last 40 - 50 years we have slipped into a tech-pampered trance, where human consciousness of the physical and natural environment has all but faded. Within this stupor, we exist in self-granted impunity. According to a recent study released by the United Nations, a million species face imminent extinction, due to the unseen and cumulative effects of hundreds of everyday technologies, single use plastics, the industrial waste of multinational corporations whose industrial surplus is polluting the land, air, water and oceans. We are fast extinguishing nature, the very thing to which we owe our existence; the complex natural world from which we evolved, and which helped humanity survive for millions of years before civilization. In favoring technology, fantasy and convenience, our wide-ranging skills for survival in the wild are lost.
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It’s an interesting, distressing time. We are seemingly at a point of unparalleled innovation and technological advancement. We have the ability to solve many problems. All the warning signs are there – imminent extinction of species, destruction of natural habitat, the climate crisis - but what remains to be seen is whether we’ll choose to act in time or continue with our current lifestyle, political, and economic choices that are altering life on earth as we know it.
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Curated by Simone Tredoux
Text co-writer: Brendon Bosworth - Human Element Communications
NO ORDINARY WOMEN - AUG - OCT 2018
VIEW GALLERY - OPENING NIGHT
VIEW OPENING NIGHT VIDEO
ZEISS PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2017 - SHORTLISTED
Some of Nicky’s work, alongside the winner and other shortlisted photographers of the
#ZEISSPhotoAward
will be exhibited as part of a Guest Exhibition at the
Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr - 2017 Exhibition
Somerset House, London, from 21 April - 7 May.
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ZEISS BLOG - 23 March 2017
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