Art Exhibitions

12 August 2020

A collaborative exhibition by visual artist Pippa Hetherington and the world-renowned Keiskamma Art Project. 

 

The virtual exhibition will take place on our website at www.gfiartgallery.com  

 

Memory is a tapestry of relationships. The exhibition Cuttings 1820 – 2020, constructed around themes of family, cultural memory, displacement and loss, explores the difficulty of disentangling our shared histories.  

 

Textiles, clothing and portraiture are placed in conversation with each other, in the process forging new identities and configurations. Pivoting on the relationship between female descendants of the Eastern Cape Xhosa nation and of the 1820 British Settlers, this collaborative exhibition incorporates dressmaking, embroidery, assemblage, video and photography.

 

In the process it also connects us to the feminine, and particularly to the strong female identities so often neglected in historical storytelling.  The sensuous fabrics create a tapestry of new relationships, bringing us closer to what we have lost, but also to what can be created anew, binding us simultaneously to the past, present and unfolding future of our country.  

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