Santu Mofokeng, Winter in Tembisa, from the series "Billboards," 2004 © Santu Mofokeng Foundation. Courtesy Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, Johannesburg
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Beyond the Binary - Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt
16/04/2023 - 19/11/2023
The Walther Collection
Reichenauerstr. 21
89233 Neu-Ulm
walthercollection.com/
The Walther Collection continues its focus on contemporary photography from Africa with the first dialogic exhibition of works by Santu Mofokeng (1956-2020) and David Goldblatt (1930-2018) at its museum campus in Neu-Ulm. Drawn from its extensive holdings and curated entirely out of the Collection, the exhibition curated by art historian Tamar Garb opens dynamic spaces for re-evaluation and re-interpretation by interweaving the works of these extraordinary photographers.
Structured around three overarching themes and sub-chapters, this unique curatorial approach offers new ways of looking at the oeuvres of Mofokeng and Goldblatt, allowing for surprising juxtapositions and new insights to emerge. Both men set out to picture everyday life and experience in South Africa during Apartheid and its aftermath. But where they are often positioned in contrast to one another, with Goldblatt understood as the insightful social documentarian and Mofokeng as the visionary poet, this exhibition aims to question such a separation and to allow the images to traverse preconceived labels and patterns of perception. By combining their works in novel ways the exhibition seeks to draw out the distinctiveness of each while questioning the binaries through which they are customarily viewed.
16/04/2023 - 19/11/2023
The Walther Collection
Reichenauerstr. 21
89233 Neu-Ulm
walthercollection.com/
The Walther Collection continues its focus on contemporary photography from Africa with the first dialogic exhibition of works by Santu Mofokeng (1956-2020) and David Goldblatt (1930-2018) at its museum campus in Neu-Ulm. Drawn from its extensive holdings and curated entirely out of the Collection, the exhibition curated by art historian Tamar Garb opens dynamic spaces for re-evaluation and re-interpretation by interweaving the works of these extraordinary photographers.
Structured around three overarching themes and sub-chapters, this unique curatorial approach offers new ways of looking at the oeuvres of Mofokeng and Goldblatt, allowing for surprising juxtapositions and new insights to emerge. Both men set out to picture everyday life and experience in South Africa during Apartheid and its aftermath. But where they are often positioned in contrast to one another, with Goldblatt understood as the insightful social documentarian and Mofokeng as the visionary poet, this exhibition aims to question such a separation and to allow the images to traverse preconceived labels and patterns of perception. By combining their works in novel ways the exhibition seeks to draw out the distinctiveness of each while questioning the binaries through which they are customarily viewed.