More than 150 people enjoyed live jazz music and a glass of wine at Elsa van der Klashorst’s Capital Transition exhibition, that marked the opening of her art exhibition at the Fried Contemporary Art Gallery in Brooklyn on Saturday.
According to Van der Klashort the inner city of Pretoria was created by ‘power-geographics’ to administer to the bureaucracy of the Afrikaner nationalist ideal.
Like other South African cities, it has become a zone of transition, an ambiguous in-between space, which was slowly changing towards an – as yet uncertain – future identity.
“There is an ongoing process of transition of codes and signs, like street names. There is a constant remapping of architecture and urban infrastructure taking place,” she said.
Her art work will be showcased until 4 October.
The gallery opens at 09:00 to 17:00 from Tuesdays to Fridays and from 10:00 to 14:00 on Saturdays.
It will be closed on Sundays, Mondays and public holidays.
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