Spier Light Art 5th edition at Spier Wine Farm

by Philip | Mar 14, 2023 | Featured | 0 comments

Step into a brighter world at Spier Wine Farm

Spier Light Art 5th edition is hosted at Spier Wine Farm, and you are invited to step into a brighter world at this eagerly anticipated event running to 10 April 2023.

Grab the kids, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and best friends because this favourite, annual event has a little something for everyone. It’s an interactive, nocturnal adventure featuring experimental light, sound and video artworks from local and international artists. And there will be plenty of good food and wine available.

Exploring various themes, Spier Light Art delves into the ethereal and the whimsical, the political landscape, humanity’s changing relationship with technology, tenacity in the face of adversity, and Spier’s unique history.

Food & Wine

GEORGIA MUNNIK (AND THINGKING), Orpheus,

Pre-book your sunset picnic here (collect your picnic from 18:00 to 20:00).
Spier Farm Café is open daily until 21:00 with a delicious build your own picnic offering, great coffee and late-night treats.
Vadas Smokehouse & Bakery is open until 21:00 on Wednesday to Saturday, booking advised.
Bubbles & Braai Bar is open daily until 21:00.
Enjoy a Spier Wine Tasting on the deck, open daily till 18:00 with extended hours on Thursday to Saturday until 19:00 (last tasting start 1 hour before closing).

Spier Light Art is free to the public. All of the artworks are outside so the best time to visit is at dusk, when the sun goes down and the lights come up.

WHAT: Spier Light Art 5th Edition
WHERE: Spier Wine Farm,
WHEN: March 10 to April 10, 2022 | 18:30 – 21:0
COST: Free Entry
INFO: Visit | To view all the artworks – HERE
PHOTO: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, TIAGO RODRIGUES

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

BAQA, Thania Petersen

Since the inception of Spier Light Art in 2018, light has been deployed as a medium to deepen, enliven and enhance the artworks, while artists have probed a range of subjects in intricate ways. Particularly of late, the pandemic and other precarities have led to the creation of introspective and conceptual works, drawing from atmospheres of reflection and reset as several global and national trials assailed our society.

This year, these challenges have not disappeared – with Eskom and loadshedding providing brutal irony to curating a project about light, and adding to the challenges of what it takes to live in this contemporary world. However, in this 2023 collection, artists play with and lean into form more deeply, exploring the materiality of light itself and its manifestations. This shifts this sprawling outdoor exhibition into an experiential adventure of the many possibilities that light may be moulded into, from placeholder and marker to a thing of wonder in and of itself. So while themes hold gravitas and centre this collection of work, light is deployed in myriad evocative ways, inviting an experience of forms and, in some instances, leading us to reflect on the pressing issues of our time.