Clive Rundle explored through art

Fragments of the past confront the present in Clive Rundle: About Memory, an exhibition curated by Erica de Greef that opens at Braamfontein’s Afronova gallery this week.

The interdisciplinary exhibition presents reflections as constructions of memory in the work of fashion designer Clive Rundle, through a study of the multiple sites of fashion that make up his collective work: the studio, shop, show, fashion shoot and magazine and, more closely, the patterns, sketches, mirrors and fashioned objects.

“I’m interested in the complex negotiation that occurs in the reading of the surfaces of fashion, especially in the work of Clive Rundle,” says Erica.

Underpinning this exhibition is a notion of time and layering as a network of memory traces that reference loss and absence in the considered constructions of fashion: in a jacket, sleeve, textile or bricolage of pieces.

The month-long exhibition runs from 24 June – 24 July and will include two walkabouts and two film screenings.

More information: www.afronova.com, +27(0)83 726 5906