holdfast

holdfast 

1. something to which something else may be firmly secured

2. a part by which a plant clings to a flat surface

3. an organ by which a parasitic animal attaches itself to its host

An exhibition about hands and holding curated by Kundai Moyo and Chloë Reid featuring work by Bianca Baldi and Bridget Baker, Natasha Brown, Katharien de Villiers, Thulile Gamedze, Nathan Gates, Hemali Khoosal, Dale Lawrence, Siyabonga Mahlaba, Daniel Malan, Kundai Moyo, Björn Perborg and Jonah Sack. 

Refer to the complete catalogue here.

image from: Act 1: Aerolithe Illusion (Bureau de Cinema Africain)  publication by Bridget Baker & Bianca Baldi, 2013

show

show is a late-summer exhibition of work that is not necessarily related by Jeanne Gaigher, Rebecca Haysom, Lebogang Mogul Mabusela, Mmabatho Grace Mokalapa, Daniella Mooney, Octavia Roodt, Renée Rossouw and Sitaara Stodel.

Please refer to the exhibition guide here and catalogue of Sitaara Stodel’s available work here.

blue 3, Sitaara Stodel, 2019, cyanotype on fabriano rosapina, 350 x 250 mm

rocks

rocks is an exhibition about the same, curated by Chloë Reid and Matty Roodt.

Less of a curatorial essay than a collection of things to be set out and looked at, rocks includes work by Nina Barnett, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Jared Ginsburg, Dan Halter, Thami Jali, Io Makandal, Garth Meyer, Nabeeha Mohamed, Daniella Mooney, Sean O’Toole, Matty Roodt, Jonah Sack, Inga Somdyala and Sitaara Stodel.

Refer to the complete catalogue here.

(section from) Rock Drawing: Molten Flow Filled Fracture From Meteor Impact II, Nina Barnett, 2017, graphite on rock paper