tongues

An exhibition about code-switching curated by Kundai Moyo and Chloë Reid

With work by

NOLAN OSWALD DENNIS
ADRIAN FORTUIN
NATHAN GATES
TZUNG-HUI LAUREN LEE
LEBOGANG MOGUL MABUSELA (monotypebabe)
NABEEHA MOHAMED
PEBOFATSO MOKOENA
PULE RATSOMA
SITAARA STODEL
XHANTI ZWELENDABA

tongues brings together the work of 10 artists to think through the process of alternating from one language or code to another.

Borne out of necessity and applied as a means of gaining visibility and recognition within a social, political or professional context, code-switching is also exercised to tactical and creative ends.

This exhibition considers the ways in which code-switching becomes a means of expressing multiple subjectivities, recognising the loaded significance that the term carries in relation to language, race and class, and the direct implications it has for self-expression, social acceptance and identity.

For more information, contact: info@gallerygallery.co.za

A catalogue of works can be found here.

tongues is a project by gallery, gallery.

Xhanti Zwelendaba, *isiXhosa 2nd Additional Language (How to Click)*, 2015, video, 1:30 min (still from video)

the world

John Phalane and Daniel Malan

1 May 2021

the world pairs new work by Daniel Malan with existing work by John Phalane.

Daniel Malan (b. 1991, Cape Town) uses video from IP cameras around the world as reference material for detailed and kinetic chalk pastel drawings. John Phalane (b. 1957, Tzaneen, Limpopo) uses colour pencils to create vivid geographical drawings and architectural impressions that bend conventional perspective. The exhibition speculates on the manipulation of physical space in their respective practices.

A series of works by Kundai Moyo titled Stranger Studies will be shown in the interim space between the atelier and the gallery. The series sets out to foreground human connection through the construction of scenarios that allow for moments of fleeting intimacy between strangers in public spaces.

A catalogue of works can be found here. For more information contact: info@gallerygallery.co.za

Daniel Malan, Johannesburg Spazashop, 2021, chalk pastel on paper, 110 x 110 cm