Current Review(s)
Drowning in Colour
Yvette Dunn at KZNSAWrapped in plastic, Yvette Dunn, or her alter ego ‘Shero’, emerges from a paint-filled tub a la Swamp Thing. The performance Drowning in Colour opened her current show of the same name at the KZNSA. Both the title of the work and the act itself reference Dunn’s clear interest in the body politic of her mixed Scottish/Zulu heritage. In a post-apartheid context, Dunn deals directly with issues of DNA, birthright and blood links. Like some alien, Lady Gaga-style, polyurethane-clad superhero, Dunn allowed herself to be coated in layer upon layer of paint by a group of HAZMAT-suit clad helpers. Eventually, most of her form, and any visible ‘skin’, was obliterated by the sticky mess, the primary colours of the paint mingling to form a rather gruesome-looking bodily viscera.
12 April 2011 - 08 May 2011
Drowning in Colour
Yvette Dunn at KZNSAWrapped in plastic, Yvette Dunn, or her alter ego ‘Shero’, emerges from a paint-filled tub a la Swamp Thing. The performance Drowning in Colour opened her current show of the same name at the KZNSA. Both the title of the work and the act itself reference Dunn’s clear interest in the body politic of her mixed Scottish/Zulu heritage. In a post-apartheid context, Dunn deals directly with issues of DNA, birthright and blood links. Like some alien, Lady Gaga-style, polyurethane-clad superhero, Dunn allowed herself to be coated in layer upon layer of paint by a group of HAZMAT-suit clad helpers. Eventually, most of her form, and any visible ‘skin’, was obliterated by the sticky mess, the primary colours of the paint mingling to form a rather gruesome-looking bodily viscera.
12 April 2011 - 08 May 2011
Drowning in Colour
Yvette Dunn at KZNSAWrapped in plastic, Yvette Dunn, or her alter ego ‘Shero’, emerges from a paint-filled tub a la Swamp Thing. The performance Drowning in Colour opened her current show of the same name at the KZNSA. Both the title of the work and the act itself reference Dunn’s clear interest in the body politic of her mixed Scottish/Zulu heritage. In a post-apartheid context, Dunn deals directly with issues of DNA, birthright and blood links. Like some alien, Lady Gaga-style, polyurethane-clad superhero, Dunn allowed herself to be coated in layer upon layer of paint by a group of HAZMAT-suit clad helpers. Eventually, most of her form, and any visible ‘skin’, was obliterated by the sticky mess, the primary colours of the paint mingling to form a rather gruesome-looking bodily viscera.
12 April 2011 - 08 May 2011
Listings(s)
'Past Imperfect - Future Tense' and 'Drowning in Colour'
Yvette Dunn, Various Artists and Sibonelo Chiliza at KZNSAThe main gallery of the KZNSA is featuring a curated show of large-scale watercolours and prints from the Botanical Artists Association of South Africa. Sibonelo Chiliza will present his first major public showing. The event forms part of the galleries Social Art Intervention Program which promotes works within the broader context of culture, heritage and society. Yvette Dunn’s solo exhibition on the upper mezzanine explores her alter ego ‘Shero’ through live performance and paintings.
12 April 2011 - 08 May 2011
