Her photographic seriesDomesticity seems to compliment Tully’s concept of the urban animal and how we’re all essentially zookeepers, while at the same time we want to escape our self-created concrete enclosures. An artist who talks more about the figurative, or, as Nieuwoudt puts it, about how “we’re all stuck in one big zoo”, is Germaine de Larch. What I like about this is that everything in this show seems to complicate that boundary.”Īnd certain works in ZOO do just that, they complicate the boundary. I think there are metaphorical layers but I really am afraid of figurative things as I find them reductionist: animals are reduced to metaphors according to human agendas. “Many works are literally ‘animal’ and it has taken on that aspect. “The concept grew rather fast, and we left it up to artists to propose works,” she explains. “I ask Tully why the exhibition features many human-animals, as opposed to more abstract and conceptual pieces. There’s some terrific coverage on it in the Mail & Guardian by Ang Lloyd : NIROXprojects put together a Zoo City-inspired exhibition at Arts on Main in Johannesburg’s Maboneng Precinct with a bunch of amazing artists, curated by Ann Marie-Tully and Neil Nieuwoudt.
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