Dominique Cheminais, Things Done While Dreaming, opens Thursday 19 at 6pm at THK Gallery, Cape Town, with an accompanying talk and literature reading by the artist in the gallery on Saturday, 21 January at 11am.
This new series of paintings brings to life the artists’ writings, depicting Baroque scenes and characters from her numerous publications. First a painter, then a writer, now returned to painting, the
paintings and text intertwine, with her fiction forming a prelude to the paintings in a continuous creative act.
Dominique Cheminais (b 1984) is a novelist and painter from Cape Town, South Africa. In 2010, she had an exhibition of paintings, titled For Esme with Love and Squalor, at Blank Projects. Shortly afterwards she stopped painting entirely and dedicated herself to writing fiction. She is the author of a collection of short stories, Slim Foot on the Neck of a Dead Lion and Immovable Movers, a book of abstract poetry. Her first novel, The Animal Breaking Through the Flesh, came out in 2015 followed by her second novel Eighty-Four Thousand. Her most recent novel Indefinite Holiday will be published in the US later this year through Pig Roast Publishing. Her novel Many Shallows has provided the inspiration for her new paintings.
Since re-entering the art world, she has shown work on FNB Joburg Art Fair with Stevenson Gallery, participated in a group show presented by Guy Simpson at Under Projects, and done a residency to launch her novel Many Shallows with A4 arts foundation, painting the walls and ceiling of the Goods space at Proto A4.
WHAT: Dominique Cheminais, Things Done While Dreaming
WHERE: THK Cape Town, 52 Waterkant Street, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Opening 19 January at 18h00 | Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 10:00 – 18:00Sat 10:00 – 15:00
INFO: T 087 470 0178 | E office@thkgallery.com | VisitÂ
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