Eclectica Contemporary presents a summer exhibition featuring Sahlah Davids, Ibrahim Khatab, Loyiso Mkize and Lars Fischedick. Across varied mediums ranging from Lars' conceptual wooden constructions to Sahlah's amalgamated fabrics, pins and brooches, these artists interrogate how material can act as witness, and a reflective of collective memory as an act of resistance.
Nkhensani Mkhari's text 'What Was, What Is, What If' suggests the idea of destabilizing normative representational economies. Liminal spaces between representation and deconstruction are explored through eight artists that negotiate the phenomenological terrain of cultural production in their art, and see them manifest as aesthetics of interruption. Featured artists include Shaquille-Aaron Keith, Loyiso Mkhize, Ebenezer Samuel Akinola, Cathy Layzell, William Chechet, Lars Fischedick, Ayogu Kingsley and Anthony Lane.
"Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?" Questioning the notion of the feminine nude in the art world, the Guerrilla Girl's have offered society provocations into bodily autonomy in art. Featuring artists Good Good Boy, Emma Hapner, Elspeth Vince,Willemien de Villiers, Ruschka du Toit, Julia Swanepoel Pepler and Karlien van Rooyen, the works in this exhibition reflect upon the unresolved questions that are left primarily unanswered in the art world, and in society at large.
Cynics consider Black Portraiture a fad, a boom-bust phenomenon akin to ‘tulipomania’. It cannot be so easily discarded and disregarded. Its impact in America is especially critical, given an incipient civil war and threat to democracy.
This group of artists have explored sacred geometries and abstract patterns. Featured artists are Anthony Lane, Yasmine Yacoubi, Lars Fischedick and Georgia Lane.
CTAF 2023: Colourful Thinking "Eclectica contemporary is pleased to present an exciting celebration of color and African identity in our group exhibition, "Colourful Thinking." This vibrant display features works by artists Ayogu Kingsley, Johannes Phokela, Thebe Phetogo, Nedia Were, Bob-Nosa Uwagboe, Dankyi Mensah,
On this occasion, Eclectica presents African portraiture , by renowned artist from the African continent , for whom Marshall is a powerful influence, as is the photographer Zanele Muholi.
Our intentions, as a gallery and as a team, have always been to provide a platform that highlights and celebrates the narratives of and from the African continent and so, by hosting a group exhibition in August each year, our focus turns towards sharing the stories of woman and non-binary artists. This means turning towards conversations around the impact of gender, its definitions, and the constraints that shape and reflect society at large.
At no point in the history of painting has the black body been so exalted, fetishized, or scrutinised. I believed the matter to be one driven by colonial guilt, the attrition of white mythological power, and, in lieu of a more hybrid and global
Margins Eclectica Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Margins, a group show which runs alongside three adjacent curatorial collaborations taking place in the gallery throughout August and September to celebrate Womxn’s Month. As a womxn run and led gallery based in
