Unusual exhibitions at AVA

The Association for Visual Arts (AVA ) have partnered with Spier to present three exciting exhibitions from 18 April – 13 May in Cape Town.

Elgin Rust presents Judgement, Uitspraak 2011 Case No. 001/05/2008 in the Main gallery – a collaborative group show developed out of Rust’s MFA ‘redress1-un-dressed, Adv. Alice presents J v JR 2010’. This project investigates processes of judicial and aesthetic redress to offer fresh perspectives on the victim within the criminal justice system.

For Judgement, Uitspraak 2011 Case No. 001/05/2008, fourteen different responses by participating artists are juxtaposed in relation to aspects of Elgin’s ‘redress2-un-dressed’ exhibition.

The walkabout for this exhibition takes place at 11 AM on Saturday, 30 April.

Dillon Marsh presents Lay of the Land in the Long Gallery.

Dillon documents unusual objects within their immediate environment, picking them out of a landscape into which they might otherwise blend in. These include cell phone towers disguised as trees, telephone poles that have been claimed as nesting perches, and trees that have been permanently bent by persistent winds.

In each of these series, Dillon has chosen objects that can be found in multitude within their environment. By photographing the individual examples, he depicts a family of objects in a series of photographs.

Cinga Samson presents Rusting Iron, a series of mixed-media paintings in the Arts strip.

Rusting Iron refers to the slow corrosion of colonial power and Apartheid systems. Samson offers insight into the general perceptions of power reflected within our society at large, unpacking history and personal experience with an emotionally charged use of colour and paint application.

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