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Home Is Where The Art Is: Art Is Where The Home Is
Group exhibition
After a closure of more than seven months, Zeitz MOCAA reopens with an unprecedented, democratic celebration of art from the people of Cape Town. Assembled through an open submission process, the exhibition includes over 2,000 artworks from collectors, professional and amateur artists submitted at drop-off points across the city.
As part of a re-positioning and re-articulation of the role of the institution, the exhibition marks a transformative shift in how Zeitz MOCAA engages with audiences and constituencies and foregrounds the creativity and diversity of people in this unique African city.
Dates: October 22, 2020–January 10, 2021
Line In The Sand
Haroon Gunn-Salie
Cape Town-born Gunn-Salie will occupy galleries dedicated to experimentation and process and will use the space as an open studio and platform for conversations around home, belonging, and history.
Through his multi-disciplinary practice, which includes performance, sculpture and film, Gunn-Salie highlights understated narratives about South Africa. His work amplifies oral histories and collective memory, while questioning issues around memorialisation and justice. This is most evident in Zonnebloem Renamed (2013) and Soft Vengeance (Jan van Riebeeck) (2015), which were created to spark debate around local colonial and apartheid memorials.
Dates: October 22, 2020–January 10, 2021
Alfredo Jaar: The Rwanda Project
Alfredo Jaar: The Rwanda Project is a solo exhibition by the Chilean-born and New York-based artist. Jaar’s multidisciplinary practice explores power relations, socio-political stratifications, and issues of migration and discrimination.
The exhibition consists of selected works from The Rwanda Project (1994-2000) and is largely derived from Jaar’s own experiences in Rwanda in 1994 witnessing the then recent aftermath of the genocide. The artist’s cutting commentary towards the world’s muted response to these events at that time is palpable. The series of technical and poignant installations highlight news media and the public’s voyeuristic gaze. As a critique of the act of looking and seeing, Jaar translates and integrates images into experiences that attempt to highlight the complexity of trauma and the memory that extends beyond that captured within a visual.
Dates: November 18, 2020–May 23, 2021
Waiting for Gebane
Senzeni Marasela
Zeitz MOCAA presents a long-due institutional focus on the work of Senzeni Marasela. Through printmaking, drawing, performance, and mixed-media installations involving textiles and embroidery, Marasela’s work unpacks history, memory, and personal narrative, emphasising historical gaps and overlooked figures. The exhibition traces significant themes in her practice, particularly in relation to the persona and alter ego of the artist, Theodorah.
Inspired by, and in femage to her mother, Marasela has over the last sixteen years explored the role of black working women in South Africa and the devastating effects of migration, patriarchy, and apartheid. In a durational performance blurring the lines between performativity and everyday life, Marasela wore for six consecutive years exclusively the same red dress, in celebration of unsung female figures. This is also a recurring motif in her richly textured and detailed fibre-based embroidery works.
Dates: December 18, 2020-May 2, 2021
Shooting Down Babylon
Tracey Rose
A radical voice in the art world, Rose’s biting and uncompromising vision will be foregrounded in the first and largest, comprehensive retrospective exhibition by the artist to date. Featuring work from 1990 to 2019, the show’s title comes from an installation, Shooting Down Babylon (The Art of War) (2016), which reflects on exorcist and cleansing rituals from non-Western communities. The work points to themes that stem from processes of healing from colonial trauma, such as repatriation, reparation and reckoning, and epitomises the wide-ranging media and concerns that are prevalent in Rose’s practice.
The exhibition will encompass film, sculpture, photography, performance, print, painting, and multi-layered participatory elements, with the body and performativity central to every aspect.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a major monograph on the artist’s practice.
Dates: February 17, 2021-August 29, 2021
