Amita Makan
My Mother in Doodles,
2010.
oil and hand embroidered on canvas with silk threads
46 x 45.7cm.
'Evanescence' is an exhibition of large-scale portraits in oil and embroidery that Makan made of her mother who died last year after struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease. The hyperrealist portraits, reminiscent of Bollywood portraits, are, says the artist, an attempt to immortalize her mother in the face of her steady deterioration, a painstaking way of putting her mother back together.
11 May - 30 May
In the Garden,
2010;
Digital photograph
Amy-Jo Windt creates absurdist collages whose subversion of mass media images appropriates wildly from fashion and lifestyle magazines. In doing so, she renders abstracted images of the female form that are as resonant of Dadaism as they are of gender critique. Her new work on show at the KZNSA includes life-size puppets which have been photographed in real-world contexts.
Chandelier,
2001;
Public Intervention - Newtown
The KZNSA's Electric Gallery plays host to one of Steven Cohen's best-known filmed performances. In Chandelier, Cohen dressed fabulously in vertiginous heels and an illuminated chandelier tutu, interacted with residents of a squatter camp in Newtown, Johannesburg, while it was in the process of being destroyed.
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