Zoë Paul, iii (2016)
IO / Blank Projects
May 6 – Jun 24, 2023
Blank Projects
Cape Town, South Africa

Blank is pleased to present lO, a group exhibition marking the gallery’s 10 year anniversary.
Featuring intimate and lesser known works by artists of the gallery, the show offers ways in which to view the artists’ practices from a different perspective while highlighting various stages of their creative production over the past ten years.

“Listen was made at Greatmore, when I still had my studio there. I found a roll of paper that another artist had discarded outside, exposed to the elements. When I unrolled it I found several layers of floral wallpaper. Using a heatgun, I burned the image of my face in profile into the paper. I tried to hide myself as much as possible in the paper’s pattern; almost like camouflage. At the heart of the work is a desire to almost disappear into the environment, be invisible while paying attention, observing and listening.” –Igshaan Adams

Artists: Igshaan Adams, Jared Ginsburg, donna Kukama, Sabelo Mlangeni, Kyle Morland, Gregory Olympio, Zoë Paul, Gerda Scheepers, Lerato Shadi, Kemang Wa Lehulere, and James Webb

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS
  • Mat Collishaw: Alluvion
    Jun 6 – Oct 15, 2023
    M77 Gallery
    Milan, Italy

    Alluvion, an exhibition of the works of British artist and intellectual Mat Collishaw, curated by Danilo Eccher, will be open to the public at M77 Gallery, Via Mecenate 77, from June 7 to October 15, 2023. Alluvion represents a new landscape modelled by material deposited by floodwaters, just as digital media floods our daily life and changes the social co-ordinates through which we manage communication, making us dependent on a world increasingly mechanised and controlled by technology, an image we find in most of Collishaw’s work. (more…)

  • Forgotten Realms / Residency
    Deadline Oct 26, 2023
    Art Inside Out
    Kungsbacka, Sweden

    Art Inside Out invites artist applications for participation in Forgotten Realms, an artistic residency that explores new representations of reality in the borderland between the mundane and the fantastical, myth and reality, past and present. The residency is connected to Tjolöholm Castle in Kungsbacka, at the Swedish west coast, with a relationship to Nordic and Celtic folklore, reflected in both the breathtaking natural surroundings and the impressive castle interiors. (more…)

  • Lutz Bacher: AYE!
    Oct 5 – Dec 17, 2023
    Raven Row
    London, UK

    This exhibition of the unsettling, uncategorisable work of American artist Lutz Bacher (1943–2019) explores her use of music, sound and voice. Bacher’s work oscillates between the conceptual and the visceral. Much of it involves appropriation, using material from American popular culture and flotsam from the information age (pulp fiction, self-help manuals, trade magazines, scientific publications, pornography, bureaucracy, discarded photographs), in work that can be intimate, violent or funny. (more…)