Petros Ghebrehiwot – Works 2006 - 2010 – Main Gallery

Ghebrehiwot, an Eritrean-born, South Africa-based artist works focus on society’s movement towards positive values reflecting the power of unity, sharing, communication, agreement, conflict management, etc. Ghebrehtwot’s interest in this concept was inspired by the Eritrean people’s united resistance against oppression.

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Julie Mayo   “The Art of the Construction Site”    –digital photography – Middle Gallery

Having an extensive background in Architecture, Durban artist Julie Mayo has always had a fascination for construction sites: the energy, chaos, and danger. The smell of wet concrete and newly dug earth; the noisy, carefree chattering of the labourers; the ear-splitting sound of metal against metal; the visuals created by scaffolding, danger tape, cranes, the geometric skyline. 

For this body of work Mayo has photographed the progress of the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa, and digitally manipulated them to create these stunning images that are imbued with her own sensitivity to colour, emotion and atmosphere.

 

Here the construction site is a metaphor for the journey that is life: Mayo's photographs have captured the process rather than an image of the end.

 

 

Upcoming at artSPACE durban:

 

14 February – 5 March

“Shooting Southern Africa” - Photography Group Show

 

 1 - 4  March

Collection at the gallery for the ABSA L'Atelier Art Competition