The AVA
in partnership with Spier
 
invites you to the opening of three solo exhibitions
 
DALE WASHKANSKY 
A SPACE BETWEEN
 
To be opened by Siona O'Connell Doctoral Candidate at UCT researching a
new imagining of the family archive
 
MAURICE MBIKAYI
NOTRE PEAU
 
NEIL NIEUWOUDT
IMPERIAL

at the AVA Gallery at 6 pm
Monday, 24 January 2011
Exhibition Closes on Friday, 18 February 2011 at 1 pm
 
 


 
 
Dale Washkansky - Urns: Buchenwald 

  
Maurice Mbikayi - Anti-social network 

  
Neil Nieuwoudt - Rorschach Test series VI	



Dale Washkansky presents A Space Between in the Main gallery. As
Washkansky locates himself in relation to the holocaust, his
photographic works remind us to consider the individual within the
enormity of genocide. Landscapes photographed by Waskansky in 2008 at
two former concentration camps in Germany (Buchenwald and Ravensbrück)
are exhibited in relation to cyanotype prints on springbok hides . The
different photographic material utilised amplifies the contrast of
reality and memory, personal stories within public histories.

Maurice Mbikayi employs the Long gallery with Notre Peau (Our Skin).
Mbikayi investigates the effects of technology on identity and history
whilst unpacking the various ways in which the technological revolution
has both positively and negatively impacted on Africa. Evocative
portraits are created out of discarded technology; computer matter
becomes skin as cell phones become hearts.

Neil Nieuwoudt employs the Artstrip with a mixed media body of work
entitled Imperial.  Nieuwoudt plays with materiality, line and colour in
his collage and animation works, which are reminiscent of the Rorschach
test in their abstraction and conceptual parameters.  


 




  

 	

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Wine at the opening is kindly sponsored by Spier www.spierwines.co.za


 

      


 

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