Katherine Spindler Living Images
There is an eloquence in the rough draft, in the unrehearsed act.
As artists we make to find our way. We make to see, to feel, to move through. Much like we do in speaking, or in writing, we can surprise ourselves with what we say we see. To paint is to speak, as well as to listen.
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.
Cathy Abraham: A Shifted Season
With a light touch and tongue-in-cheek approach, which are key to his art practice, Coljin Strydom lifts motifs and fragments from the Odyssey to situate and make sense of his own position as wanderer/wonderer. In his reflection on themes of belonging, desire, and intimacy, fantasy and reality are playfully interwoven, with Cape Town reimagined as a local Ogygia — as a contemporary paradise (or prison, depending on your perspective or access to its abundance).
Ulriche Jantjes • In the midst
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2024
In the midst is a body of work portraying moments of pause in an ever-changing world.
To be “in the midst” is to be in the middle of an activity or space. It is a moment or place of flux. The paintings and monotypes explore this in-betweenness through interior scenes that are juxtaposed with expansive exteriors. A figure peering out of the window. A landscape with a deep blue pool. By pairing inside scenes with the outside world, In the midst brings forth an element of reflection.
Selwyn Steyn • Studies from the In-between
This body of work is about Gauteng, and perception and atmosphere and the built environment and a bunch of other things as well.
The light in Gauteng is of a particular quality. Something between gold (like that which is extracted) and yellow (like the extraction’s detritus). Something between aurum and uranium. Treasure and toxicity. This is particularly so of the winter light, which is a potpourri of dust and carbon and altitude and veld and gold.
Marsi van de Heuvel • skoonveld
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2023
Through this work Marsi explores the idea of belonging to a place, a family and a culture by investigating and reinterpreting the photographs taken by her maternal grandmother and other family members during apartheid.
Colijn Strydom • The Bacchae of Buitenkant
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2022
"Themes of fragmentation and fluidity are reflected in a combination of image, text, tactility and performance, and a mix of media that includes drawing, painting and photography."
Untitled drops by at Jeff Liss and Jo Springthorpe
If you could have your pick of art from Untitled, which would you choose? Where would you put them? And why?
Jo and Jeff chose a number of pieces including ceramic works by Lyndi Sales.
Strauss Louw • Photography as a medium guides his art and reflects his relationships
Katlego Tlabela • Talks about Ikoyi, Lagos (Study)
Katlego Tlabela • Talks about Upper East Side, New York (Study)
Katlego Tlabela • Talks about Midrand, Gauteng (Study)
Stroll the streets of Salt River with Katharien de Villiers, soaking up inspiration.