Please join Greatmore Studios in celebrating the work of four artists currently in residence. STRATA is an exhibition that explores, reveals and responds to the multiple faceted-ness of our daily realities.
Over the last two months, the artists have committed themselves – through very different approaches and foci - to bringing to the fore key issues that affect and influence quotidian life patterns.
Satadru Sovan Banduri (India): "For me, this residency is not only inside the studio or inside Greatmore house. I feel the program is broadened with society, and society it self is a studio space for me. The opportunity to work with Greatmore has exposed me to communities I otherwise would not have had the chance to meet in India and this engagement has given me a new pedestal/ ‘Strata’."- Satadru focused on the layers associated with the word 'Colored', first in its use within Cape Town South Africa and secondly with his own application of it. Through multi-media installation, video, paintings and paper installation he used South Africa's polly-cultural groupings as his palette
Emalie Bingham (South Africa): "Skin is a statement I have come to respect - an outer layer against which all the mystery of being urgently presses. I have shifted between seeing skin and forgetting it. I have noticed that the skin breaks open onto each canvas, upon which new layers grow and shift." Using paint, Emalies' work evolved out of complex and personal experiences and lead her to interrogate the notion of permission: The permission to fail, failing to find it, him or her.
Misheck Masamvu (Zimbabwe): "My work scraps just below the surface of the second skin. There exists a first skin that tells the story of survival and the second skin that speaks and reveals the intention. Below these skins lies humanistic spirit reincarnated at birth."- Masamvus' journey comes from within the indicative pathos bedeviling the inherent behavior passed from one generation to another. Social exclusivity poised as abandoned playground seeks to narrate the probable source in today children's difficult to communicate.
Cinga Samson (South Africa): "I explore and investigate layers between those who are at the top of the social structure versus those who form the base of it. My main interest is the play of perception from the bottom angle..." Through his paintings and drawings Cinga looks at the master from the eyes of the Submissive.
The exhibition opens on Thursday 17 November at 17:30
Closes on Friday 25 November 2011
Open Daily 10:00 - 16:00
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Greatmore Studios is supported by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF)
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