KZNSA exhibition to provoke and engage
Returning to Durban, internationally acclaimed curator Gabi Ngcobo, presents a provocative exhibition.
THIS January the KZNSA Gallery opens the first exhibition of the year with Mating Birds Vol. 2, on Thursday, 17 January (5.30pm for 6pm).
Returning to Durban, internationally acclaimed curator Gabi Ngcobo, presents a provocative exhibition. A walkabout with the curators and participating artists is on Friday, 18 January at 10am.
Mating Birds Vol.2 engages with art and written documents dealing with the effects of colonial and apartheid laws on South African contemporary sexual relationships.
Mating Birds Vol.2 is a curatorial essay that takes the late Lewis Nkosi’s novel “Mating Birds” as a starting point.
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The novel is used to visualise the troublesome histories associated with the Immorality Acts of the parliament of colonial and apartheid South Africa. The effect of these Acts are presented through the staging of an exhibition as an essay that draws on original artwork as well as reference material from art, literature, philosophy, legal documents, letters, newspaper clippings and exhibition catalogues, among other sources. The essay exposes how contemporary perspectives on sex, sexuality and sexual relationships have been shaped, contested or maintained.
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