Our Father, another name for the Lord�s Prayer intrinsically represents patriarchy as a form of social organisation whereby society is governed by a system, in which the father is the supreme authority in the place of worship, family, community, country and work environment.
bell hooks states in Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom �Patriarchy has no gender� and yet gender is a politically and socially coerced category, in patriarchy�s syllabus of teaching. One that effects the most intimate of spaces, the family.
Artworks have been drawn from artists whose oeuvre either specifically or consequential investigate the idea of �father�.
Participating artists:
Lynette Bester, Paul Birchall, Lien Botha, David Brits, Georgina Gratrix, Anton Karstel, Ayanda Mabulu, Charles Maggs, Brett Murray, Dathini Mzayiya, Paul Painting, Monique Pelser, Ken Rees-Gibbs, Chad Rossouw, Lyndi Sales, Cinga Samson, Damien Schumann, Zolani Siphungela, Frank van Reenen, Elize Vossgatter, Khayalethu Witbooi, Dale Yudelman
Co-curated by Kirsty Cockerill and Chantal Louw.
Our Fathers opens at the AVA on 27 August and closes on 21 September 2012
- 11/11/2012 14:09 - Mumbo Jumbo at Whatiftheworld
- 26/09/2012 20:41 - "These Waves" Solo Exhibition by Pierre Fouch�
- 21/09/2012 09:30 - "Making Faces" Exhibition at Rose Korber Art
- 11/09/2012 17:56 - Roger Ballen/Die Antwoord at Photographers Gallery
- 28/08/2012 07:10 - Ex Nihlo by Maja Maljevi?