“For most of history Anonymous was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf When I started ANON. as a pop-up gallery in January 2019, I was inspired by this Virginia Woolf quote. I’d never thought of myself as a feminist, and yet this powerful line had sat with me for almost
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(exhibition release) ANON.Pop Up Art Show presents RISE A curated exhibition of artists, photographers, activists & poets “Still, like air, I rise…” – Maya Angelou LAUNCHPop Up Exhibition24 – 28 October 2019Salt Circle Arcade NEW SHOW: EXHIBITION & SPECIAL EVENT16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence25 November to 10 December 201944 on Long “I raise
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(exhibition release) 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town21 to 25 February 2019 “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman” – Virginia Woolf Introducing ANON. ANON. is a new contemporary gallery concept launching at this debut show in February 2019. Conceived, curated and produced by Sarah Jayne Fell, ANON. is a democratic space
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An artist profile written for the artist's debut exhibition in Los Angeles in 2013. This was published as a catalogue-style book in print. Memory is essential to art. Art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist refers to a continuously articulated struggle between the past, the present and the future. He
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Exhibition release for Artist Management Company SIMJEE Textor. KNOWN GALLERY: SEPTEMBER 14th – 28th, 2013 Known Gallery is proud to present Thanks for Nothing, an exhibition featuring new works by American artists Judith Supine and Alia Shawkat, and curated by Naheed Simjee (Simjee Textor). The exhibition will unveil more than
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An artist profile written for the artist commissioned by artist management and consulting company SIMJEE TEXTOR (USA). Judith Supine is a Brooklyn-based artist originally renowned for his street art, most notoriously a fifty-foot monstrosity hung off the Manhattan Bridge in 2007 – a distorted, twisted-looking luminescent green figure,
Continue ReadingIn 2010 I interviewed Roger Ballen for one small seed at Iziko gallery in Cape Town.
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Christopher Slack’s art evokes the current global preoccupation with East-versus-West politics and the role mass media plays in juggling our viewpoints on the issue. His paintings of bikini-clad pinup girls straddling television sets and brandishing large weapons are treated with hyperrealistic precision and set against saturated enamel
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