A Ripple Effect by EITZ (Elephant in the Zoom) is a group exhibition by Tracy Megan, Taryn Millar, Katherine Glenday, Josephine Grindrod, Anne Graaff, Mary-Anne Botha and Erica Elk focusing on climate change.
EITZ is a group of artists committed to engaging with the impact of climate change. They believe collective action is fundamental to addressing the scale of this reality.
Climate scientists have advised of the imminent rise in the Earth’s temperature due to global warming. This will have a profound and negative consequence for all species and is but one index to the damaging impact that human activities have had on the Earth’s systems.
- The artists represented in The Ripple Effect seek to address this situation with image-making in the belief that through creative engagement and the finding of collective voice, some greater agency and hope might be possible.
Water – the most fundamental of life-sustaining elements – will continue to be adversely affected.
Water has been explored in its myriad roles as a magician; guide; healer; traveler; activist; sustainer; arbiter and author. This has surfaced dystopian images of Water as catastrophe and contaminant, but also more optimistically as conductor of sound, revealer of body states and dissolver of fixity through its fundamental character – fluid, and endlessly metamorphosing.
The works exhibited for The Ripple Effect will be put into relation with the artefacts and impulses which arise during the second component of the exhibition. Taking place around the AVA precinct during the six-week run of the exhibition, citizens and civic thought leaders will be invited to add their evidence to the poetics, processes and pasts of Water.
- The Ripple Effect by EITZ will be opened on 6 October at 18:00 by an environmental lawyer, author, speaker and advocate for ecological sustainability Cormac Cullinan. A programme of talks and events will accompany the exhibition.
WHAT: Ripple Effect by EITZ
WHERE: AVA Gallery, Church Street, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: opening First Thursday 6 October 2022 at 5.30pm | Gallery Hours: Mon to Fri 10am- 5pm Sat 10am – 1pm
INFO: T +27 21 424 7436 | E AVA TEAM sam@ava.co.za | VISIT
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All Empires Fall by MJ Turpin will be showing in the Long Gallery
Following on his previous solo exhibition, take me apart (No End Contemporary Art Space), MJ Turpin’s extended body of work tries to re-animate itself and re-articulate what it has become since it was first shown in 2019. What does it mean to decapitate a legacy? How does one deconstruct privilege? Or rather what is left after legacy and privilege have been taken apart?
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Ripple Effect by EITZ at AVA Gallery
A Ripple Effect by EITZ is a group show at AVA Gallery of artists committed to engaging with the impact of climate change
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