Object

Running until 24 January 2024, the Object exhibition forms part of an educational project of the CAP Institute for Contemporary Art Practice, presented by Prof. Elfriede Dreyer, who is affiliated with Unisa as an Extraordinary Professor. The works on exhibition were produced during a workshop (organised by SCAVA and SANAVA) that took place over four days and included assessment of the artists' work; the identification and selection of content for artmaking; and the practical execution of ideas. The theme of Object is concerned with the projection of meaning on the things/objects that surround us, including material culture and objects in nature. The choices of objects regarded interpretations of a doll, jewellery, an old floor brush, a skull, a burnt protea, light, green shoes, maps, trees, a chair, a mirror, a tortoise, a teacup, a statue and sticks. The artists worked with ideas to do with memory, history, culture, nature, psychoanalysis, Romanticism, alchemy, the Anthropocene and identity. They considered different styles and media, and pushed to move their work to a more conceptual level.