SIGHTINGS, a new exhibition curated by Amy Watson, can be viewed at the KZNSA Gallery in Bulwer Road, Glenwood, from Tuesday, August 18. The exhibition is part of the gallery’s 2014/15 Social Art Programme supported by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund.
The exhibition features the work of seven artists who variously reflect upon the ways in which the materiality and veracity of the present are constructed from scattered and partial remains of personal and collective memory.

The works are primarily lens-based, and point to the ways in which media such as photography and film are complicit in assembling the present.

Many of the works negotiate archival material demonstrating how the archive is subject to misinterpretation and material disintegration. Other works engage with personal and collective fictions, signalling the construction inherent in constituting the present.

The title, Sightings, refers to our elusive and partial vantage point on the present moment which slips from view.

The exhibition is accompanied by a public education programme, including workshops with artist Binaca Baldi for tertiary and secondary school pupils on Thursday, August 20 and a walkabout with the curator on Saturday, August 22 at 11 am.

The participating artists are: Bridget Baker (SA/UK), Bianca Baldi (SA/DE), Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (SA/UK), Abri de Swardt (SA), Uriel Orlow (CH/UK) and Kemang Wa Lehulere (SA)

Inquiries: 031 277 1705 or www.kznsagallery.co.za