Beauty and its Beasts exhibition- Durban Art Gallery
The works on display are set to raise questions about the way society creates, perpetuates or allows gender stereotypes.
AN exhibition entitled Beauty and its Beasts designed to stimulate contemplation about women, and raise questions about the way we create, perpetuate or allow gender stereotypes, opens at the Durban Art Gallery on Thursday where it runs until 28 May.
The exhibition examines how the stereotype was created and how artists have either perpetuated the phenomenon or subverted it. The works on view were selected primarily from the collections of the Durban Art Gallery and where gaps were identified works have been borrowed from other collections. The viewer will be guided by the wall text identifying themes and it is here the voices of the collaborators bring resonance and add strata to the selections.
Works borrowed from other art collections include Mary Sibande’s Cry Havoc and Zanele Muholi’s Condoms & Feet – contemporary pieces that sit provocatively alongside Hubert von Herkomer’s Queen Victoria.
The exhibition is curated by Jenny Stretton with collaboration from Jessica Bothma; Carol Brown; Nindya Bucktowar; Zinhle Khumalo; Sinethemba Ngubane; Osmosisliza; Fran Saunders and Swany.
The Durban Art Galleryis open Monday-Saturday 8:30 to 4pm. Sundays 11am to 4pm.
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