The Underword
03 – 31 August 2017 Opening at 18:00
142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Rosebank, JHB
‘The Underword’ is an artist’s book and book object exhibition with an erotic pretext. Artists were prompted to respond to a vague curatorial text, charged with erotic undercurrents and references, and, without any definitive description to play, as artists do, creatively.
Eroticism has both a presence and value that is often overlooked an energy and closeness to our humanity. When Marcel Duchamp was asked why the erotic features so consistently in his work he replied; that the erotic was definitively human, more than any philosophical question more than any other drive the erotic was constantly manifest. Our very presence/existence is evidence of this basic human imperative which often manifests in the most curious, irrational and playful ways whilst not excluding the ‘other’ side of our desires; mortality, death, etc. In a nutshell; the erotic is implicitly human.”
Contributing artists:
Maaike Bakker….. Olaf Bisschoff….. Jayne Crawshay-Hall…. Suzanne Erasmus…….. Guy du Toit…..
Mandy Johnston….. Shenaz Mahomed…. Wayne Matthews…… Oliver Mayhew……. Emma Minkley……
Neil Niewoudt…….Jennifer Ord…… Wilna Panagos……….. Revolver… Alison Jean Shaw….. Daandrey Steyn….
Frank Van Reenen……….