Memory Frame Opening at THK Cape Town

by | Jul 11, 2024 | Featured | 0 comments

NEWS FLASH “We have decided to postpone the exhibition opening due to the severe weather conditions. An updated opening date will be available soon”

Memory Frame, a special presentation of Michaelis Graduates Nina Turok Shapiro and Kayla Howie curated by Alexandra Martinez is opening at THK Gallery Cape Town this Thursday 11 July from 5 – 7pm, and online at your leisure.

Memory Frame explores memory and intimacy through the lens of the body, in a dual presentation of works by Nina Turok Shapiro and Kayla Howie. These tender depictions of the human form explore the body as an emotional core, a site of re/construction, and a locus of life and death.

Memory Frame

Nina Shapiro, Belly

Nina Turok Shapiro examines the body’s dualities of pleasure and discomfort, vulnerability and power. In her Bellyful series, she presents the belly as an emotional center, our first maternal connection, and vessel of emotion and trauma. Her vibrant silk-screen prints focus on the belly-button, rendering it in microscopic yet cosmic forms. Turok Shapiro uses colour to engage with the belly as a space of softness. In After Image: Echoes in Colour, Turok Shapiro reimagines her family archives. She foregrounds nostalgia and memory, while engaging with her experience as a second-generation South African in the Jewish diaspora. Drawing from family photographs and oral histories, she reconstructs lost narratives. Her portrayals of intimate family moments, both real and imagined, highlight the body as a site of connection

Kayla Howie intimately explores the body and our common fragility in her series Unseeing. Her rich paintings foreground the physicality of flesh and softness of the body, standing as visceral reminders of our shared mortality. Howie paints clasped hands and networks of veins beneath the skin, juxtaposed with confrontational depictions of bruises and cuts. These wounds become portraits of our ephemerality, evoking a sense of abjection, a type of viewership defined by discomfort. Howie challenges viewers to reflect on their own physicality and emotion in response to her work.

REQUEST CATALOGUE

WHAT: Memory Frame – Nina Turok Shapiro and Kayla Howie
WHERE: THK Cape Town 52 Waterkant Street, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Opening 10 July 2024 5 – 7pm | Gallery Hours Tues – Fri 10:00 – 18:00 Sat 10:00 – 14:00
INFO: T Nina Shapiro, Belly | E office@thkgallery.com | Visit
PHOTOS: Kayla Howie, Untitled (detail), 2024 | Nina Shapiro, Belly, 2023

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