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Embraced between a rock and a hard place (self portrait), 2020
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Beginning with the Side Gallery series in 2007 and continuing with RAMP in 2015, Stevenson has hosted a number of projects aimed at giving younger, unrepresented artists a platform at the gallery. With STAGE the gallery continues this tradition. Besides offering a literal stage, the title also highlights that these artists are at a very particular point in their careers: no longer students, not yet professional artists. At the same time, it brings to mind the stages of lockdown and load shedding, part of South Africa’s daily reality in 2021. The latter association acknowledges the uncertainty and anxiety present in the lives of young artists working amidst overlapping local and global crises.
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For STAGE, Johannesburg-based artist and writer Khanyisile Mawhayi exhibits works from The Ambivalent Blueprint, a body of cyanotypes that the artist says ‘was heavily influenced by process – the process of having conversations with my mother, with my friends, with taxi drivers and lecturers; and the process of drawing and printing and making’. The Prussian blue impressions fade and form around her family history, spotlighting how she manoeuvres through different spaces with a heightened awareness of the ways in which her identity is positioned and perceived.
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I've got your back mama, 2020
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I've got your back papa, 2020
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Ambivalent, 2020
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Tisa/Teka (bring/take), 2020
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Dela (surrender), 2020
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Nyiketela, 2020
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Hi Hlavha ti Hlampfhi, 2021
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STAGE: Khanyisile Mawhayi
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