; and Voltaire and Rousseau, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 67 × 51 in.
The following research project developed by Sihle Motsa as the recipient of the Marie-Solanges Apollon Scholarship looks at the mythologies generated by KwaZulu-Natal’s ecopolitical configuration through Noria Mabasa’s artistic lens.
Literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt insinuates two kinds of human responses evoked by museums in his 1991 essay Resonance and Wonder.
Consider the lie embedded in a century-old photograph.
"What does it look like dealing with anxiety, dealing with your inner problems that we all have going on?"
So it’s time to wave bye bye to some of the best exhibitions of the year; see you later Tavares Strachan at the Hayward, TTFN Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, arrivederci Francis Alys at the Barbican.
Schnell’s work occupies both the upstairs galleries, part of the 2024 Cell Series, and the project gallery downstairs at OJAC.