ERICA ELK / NIKE ROMANO / DAVID ROSSOUW
Erica Elk - Drawing With Thread
Erica Elk - At Prayer
Erica Elk - Series: Fragments 7
Erica Elk - Source (Still from video)
Nike Romano - Motherboard
Nike Romano - Star Chart
Nike Romano - Totem
David Rossouw - Patrick (Metal Worker)
David Rossouw - Emile (Mechanic)
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David Rossouw - Robert (Japie) – Gemstone Polisher
The AVA
in partnership with Spier
invites you to the opening of three solo exhibitions
MATERIAL MATTERS
by ERICA ELK
Opening address by Virginia MacKenny
THE SUM OF THE PARTS
by NIKE ROMANO
WORKER INTERRUPTED
by DAVID ROSSOUW
Opening at the AVA Gallery at 6 pm
Monday, 26 July 2010 at 18h00
Exhibition Closes Friday, 20 August 2010
at 13h00
Erica Elk presents a mixed media body of work Material Matters in the Main gallery. Elk utilises everyday materials reconstituting them into a contemporary visual language.
In the Long gallery Nike Romano explores the space where science, the personal and art intersect. This mixed media body of work is a visual exploration that endeavours to contain the uncontainable. The theme of ordering chaos, both at a domestic level and within the universe runs through Romano’s practice and can be noted in her attention to detail and choice of materials.
Worker Interrupted by David Rossouw will employ the Artstrip. A photographic study of the aesthetic of the ordinary and the everyday that references the strong relationship between work and identity. Worker Interrupted references the notion that work influences one’s identity in a physical way. The physical appearance of a worker can be altered subtly over time as muscles are developed due to physical labour. On a superficial level, this alteration can also be in the form of clothing or bodies becoming soiled due to the nature of the work.
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