The KZNSA invites patrons to join them for the opening of the first
exhibition in their 2025 calendar, Averting the Gaze on Friday January 24 2025 from 17h30
The gallery states: “Averting the Gaze explores the lenses we wear as free individuals in a now freed country. Do we acknowledge the role we may play as consumers and internet scrollers in a supply-and-demand chain of events that may perpetuate neo-slavery?
”We are bombarded with online images and information, and the time we spend glancing at adverts, staring at screens or interacting on social media is impacted by which images grab and hold our attention. We must ask - what we are perpetuating by looking away or averting our gaze?
Moved by the escalating reports of missing women and children in South Africa, this project creates a therapeutic outlet and an alternative channel of awareness for speaking out against predators.
“By incorporating discarded objects as inspiration and art material to spread the nuanced narrative, the artworks explore a visual language that unpacks feelings of lost and found. At the same time, moving between traditional and contemporary mediums echoes the correlation between past and neo-slavery.”
This exhibition is a project of Vas Putter in collaboration with Ann-Marie Tully and John Roome (Art Print Studio - KZN), Helge Janssen, Sankree Padayachee, Mervyn Pollitt, Sinethemba Ndimande and Suraya Tewary.
There is a walkabout with the artists on Saturday 1 February at 10h00.
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