PROXIMATE WORLD navigates the porous boundaries where certainty dissolves into possibility.
Drawing on ideas of interconnectedness, intimacy and nearness, the exhibition proposes spaces and futures that exist beyond our immediate grasp — worlds that are not wholly separate from our own, but adjacent to it, close enough to touch. These worlds are informed by memories and lived experience, alongside ancient histories that preceded them.
Eight artists — Dineo Ponde, Cathy Abraham, Ulriche Jantjes, Nazeer Jappie, Kay-Leigh Fisher, Selwyn Steyn, Zenaéca Singh and Sophia van Wyk - were invited to respond to the provocation of the speculative and ‘other worlding’, where ‘other worlding’ is thought of as a practice of imagining and inhabiting alternative realities. Through fictive, ritual-based and rigorous conceptual framing, each artist explores the permeable borders between the tangible and the speculative.
A collaborative group exhibition by RESERVOIR and Untitled.
Co-curated by Selwyn Steyn and Untitled.
Space Register presents work bridging two concepts.
Space ranges from physical, geographical locales to innate cognitive spaces and all that is associated with the study of these: the particularities of light and atmosphere, the qualities and meaning of our built environment and the acute phenomena found in the natural world.
Register refers to the purposeful but reactive act of recording, documenting and collating. Using artistic practice to create an imprint or register of aspects of spatiality that are often fleeting, ignored or hard to perceive.
Superimposing these ideas results in a set of works that act as shadows of the world. These works are marks, tags, reflections, maps and registers as the artist becomes the conduit, allowing the surrounding world to reveal itself.