the
silences
between
Group
Presentation

Cape
Town
24 Aug - 29 Sep 2017
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the silences between brings together major works by a selection of pre-eminent contemporary artists who use varying modes of storytelling to rethink, rework and reimagine the world and our place within it.

The title is taken from the Maori poetry book, The Silences Between: (Moeraki conversations) in which writer Keri Hulme prompts the question: ‘What is recorded in the writing of history and what is left out?’

The exhibition considers the role of the artist in questioning how meaning is made and what is recorded in visual memory.
the silences between - Group Presentation
the silences between - Group Presentation
the silences between - Group Presentation

This exhibition takes its cue from Donna Haraway’s influential book Staying With The Trouble (2016), in which the prominent academic argues that the world cannot be understood ‘as the heroic story, told yet one more time, of the privileged signifier moving across time and space to bring back the prize at the end and die’.

the silences between presents works that expose the layered scaffolding of ‘meaning-making’ through the telling of everyday stories of ordinary people and seemingly insignificant events that have been left out of the dominant narrative.

‘The show seeks to activate the small but crucial stories that are so often forgotten, and in so doing offer new ways of crafting sensibilities,’ says curator Emma Laurence. ‘Through interfering with systems of knowledge production and archiving, the works puncture the overarching narratives of our globalised world.’

Artworks

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Alfredo Jaar
Be Afraid of the Enormity of the Possible, 2015
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William Kentridge
Soft Dictionary, 2016
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Candice Breitz
Profile , 2017
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Mikhael Subotzky
Sticky-tape Transfer 20 - R. Wye (or The British Isles - political) (0982), 2017
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The Late Estate Broomberg & Chanarin
Trace fiber from Freud's couch under crossed polars with Quartz wedge compensator (#2), 2015
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mounir fatmi
Evolution or Death, 2013
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mounir fatmi
500 Meters of Silence, 2004-2005
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Tabita Rezaire
Sugar Walls Teardom, 2016
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Kendell Geers
Masking Tradition DXIII, 2017
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Tabita Rezaire
Deep Down Tidal, 2017
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Tracey Rose
The Cunt Show, 2007
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Kiluanji Kia Henda
Havemos de Voltar (We Shall Return), 2017
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Hank Willis Thomas
Overtime, 2011
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Nolan Oswald Dennis
black liberation zodiac (ecliptic), 2017
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mounir fatmi
History is not Mine, 2013
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Samson Kambalu
Pussy negative I, 2017
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Samson Kambalu
Two Pussy Negative, 2017
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Samson Kambalu
Wounded Negative, 2017
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Paulo Nazareth
Untitled, 2011/2012
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Paulo Nazareth
Untitled, 2010/2012
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Kendell Geers
TerroRealismus, 2003
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ruby onyinyechi amanze
[Twin]... the sky and an ocean are the same, 2015
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David Goldblatt
Remnant of a wild almond hedge planted in 1660 to prevent livestock from being taken out of the European settlement in South Africa by the indigenous Khoi. Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. 16 May 1993 , 1993

Artists

paulo-nazareth
Paulo Nazareth
Nolan Oswald Dennis
ruby-onyinyechi-amanze
ruby onyinyechi amanze
Tabita Rezaire
kiluanji-kia-henda
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Grada Kilomba
Candice Breitz
mounir-fatmi
mounir fatmi
Alfredo Jaar
Hank Willis Thomas
tracey-rose
Tracey Rose
Kendell Geers
Mikhael Subotzky
William Kentridge
David Goldblatt
the-late-estate-broomberg-chanarin
The Late Estate Broomberg & Chanarin
samson-kambalu
Samson Kambalu

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