Three solos featuring artists Mmangaliso Nzuza, Jozua Gerrard and Xanthe Somers opens at the Southern Guild Cape Town on 29 August 2024.
Mmangaliso Nzuza – An Open Letter
An Open Letter is the debut solo exhibition by newly-represented South African painter, Mmangaliso Nzuza. Melding personal memory with fictive spaces, the series of figurative oil paintings navigates themes of community, subjectivity and metaphoric harvest. The new body of work sees Nzuza transport his distinct figures outdoors. In shedding the confinement of interior scenes, Nzuza’s subjects expand beyond the politics of home to find pleasure, hope and ritual in the wilds. See photo above
Jozua Gerrard – In the Present Tense
Artist Jozua Gerrard’s latest series of enamel-on-glass paintings reflects a shift towards a more studied gaze. In their radical flatness, confectionery colours and hyper-stylised precision, the vivid figurative works present an uncanny, fantasy-like vision of reality. The exhibition expands on Gerrard’s ongoing survey of contemporary culture, the complexities of identity formation and our pervasive relationship with the virtual realm.
Jozua Gerrard
Xanthe Somers – Invisible Hand
Zimbabwean ceramicist Xanthe Somers presents three hand-coiled sculpture-vessels, produced during her stay at the GUILD Residency earlier this year. Combining political commentary and hyper-ornamentation, Invisible Hand is a critical reading of extraction economies and notions of domesticity within post-colonial contexts. Somers was recently named the winner of the annual ANNA Award presented by Latitudes.
All three exhibitions will be on view at Southern Guild Cape Town until 31 October.
WHAT: Three solos by Mmangaliso Nzuza, Jozua Gerrard and Xanthe Somers
WHERE: Southern Guild, Silo 5, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Opening Thursday, 29 August, 6 PM
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