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'An Imaginary Solution' and 'No More Icecream'
Io Makandal and Vanessa Safavi at blank projects'An Imaginary Solution' by Io Makandal
In continuation with the body of work 'The Science of Imaginary Solutions' exhibited as part of the Graduate Exhibition 2010 at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Io Makandal resumes with 'An Imaginary Solution'. Through specific mundane materials Makandal attempts to articulate a hybrid vocabulary of liminality between colour relationships and texture, public and private, and function and obliteration of function. Largely reliant on intuitive process, in the method of building, meaning is created. What is created out of the process is in a continuous state of development and decomposition simultaneously. The work lives in a constant state of flux; it is built, set, broken, and transformed with intention, achievement and failure to grasp the transient. In 'An Imaginary Solution' one enters a living space of experimentation and a variant of sculptural painting as theatre.
'No More Icecream' by Vanessa Safavi
'No More Icecream' is Vanessa Niloufar Safavi's first exhibition in South Africa, and the conclusion to her three month residency in Cape Town supported by Pro Helvetia and blank projects.
The installation, an eclectic ensemble of individual works and objects, is a continuation of Safavi's interest in fusing the contradictions of references from opposing cultures and fields (in this case life and death, industry and nature, affluence and poverty) without declaring the victory of one over the other.
23 March 2011 - 09 April 2011