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ART EXHIBIT
"One Day, All Of This Will Be
Yours" by James Webb
Venue: Blank Projects, 113-115 Sir Lowry Rd, Woodstoc.
Tel: 072 198 9221.
Gallery Hours: Tue - Fri: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Duration: 21 Jan - 26 Feb 2010
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This is Webb’s second solo show
at Blank Projects and takes its starting point from Blank’s relocation to
Woodstock. The 3-minute film “Le Marché Oriental,” Webb’s meditation on
the unresolved space that was the former Oriental Plaza, an Apartheid-era
shopping mall designed to control Indian trade, will be screened.
This artwork is both site and
time-specific to the gallery space, as the location of the Oriental Plaza
is currently the construction site of ‘Six,’ a newly designed suite of
luxury apartments furthering the gentrification of the Woodstock area.
The film documents an
intervention inside the then-disused mall on the 4th day of Ramadan, 2008.
Sheikh Mogamat Moerat of District Six’s Zeenatul Islam Majid mosque was
invited to sing the Adhan (call to prayer) inside the empty remains of the
building a few weeks prior to its demolition.
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The film won second place at the Documentary Film Makers’
Association’s “Home Town” short film competition at the 2009 Encounters
Film Festival, and is currently part of the 3rd Arts In Marrakech
biennale, curated by Abdellah Karroum.
The exhibition will also feature a series of other selected
works created around the world in the last 3-years, displayed together for
the first time in Cape Town. These include interventions in Montmartre,
Paris, the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and the former radio station of the
Deutsche Demokratische Republik in Berlin.
James Webb (b. 1975, Kimberley) has been working on both
large-scale installations in galleries and museums as well as unannounced
interventions in public spaces since 2001. His work questions the nature
of belief in our contemporary world, often using exoticism, displacement
and humour to achieve these aims. He has participated in exhibitions
including “This Is Now 2,” L’Appartment22 (Rabat), “Delusions Of
Grandeur,” Unit B (Texas) and the 9th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon.
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