Opening: Saturday May 31th
Structures brings together artists and architects from the Global South who engage with questions of space, place, and race. A structure can be understood in both material and immaterial terms. For this exhibition, JCAF brings home the immersive South African Pavilion from the 2024 Venice Biennale, installs a city made of couscous, presents an interactive installation by a women-led architectural collective, exhibits delicate photographs capturing Tunisian light, and reconstructs a 1979 Brazilian installation that visitors can walk on. While the featured artworks are charged with political concerns, they also explore the poetics of the relationship between materials and meaning. From the walls of a panel beater’s workshop that gesture toward spaces of manual labour, to the social meaning of government buildings in South Africa today, the exhibition reflects on what is embedded in physical structures – and how people themselves constitute a form of living infrastructure.
Special Projects: Stephen Hobbs (ZAF), Rebecca Potterton (ZAF), Wolff Architects (ZAF)
JCAF research, development, and exhibition project.
Image: MADEYOULOOK, Dinokana ©Graham De Lacy