Published 30 September 2024 in News
Michaelis Galleries (UCT)
Natasha Norman Featured in Vital Signs: the environment, loss and sustainability Curated by Fritha Langerman & Svea Josephy
The Michaelis Galleries
Hiddingh Campus (UCT), 31-37 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
17 September - 17 October 2024
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 11:00 - 16:00 (SAST)
Vital Signs is a group exhibition showcasing work by Michaelis School of Fine Art teaching staff with a thematic focus on ecologies, climate crisis and sustainability entitled Vital Signs. The show will be curated by Associate Professors Fritha Langerman and Svea Josephy.
In the context of the planetary crisis: rapid climate change, the possibility of mass extinction and environmental apocalypse, water scarcity, reduction of habitat, conservation failures and mismanagement, the detrimental impact of humanity on the environment and the unfair distribution of "resources”, Vital Signs raises awareness and presents an ecocritical mode of curating.
This exhibition aims to not only show staff work but also to shine a light on teaching and other practices on this campus which work with notions of sustainability, care and restorative interventions including the Pavilion Prototype 2 and the Sustainable Photographic Garden.
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