Exhibitions & Projects at ROOM

ROOM presents

a project and a series of performative interventions by 

FARIEDA NAZIER AND ALBERTA WHITTLE

03.10 – 11.10.2014

In a series of performative actions the artists Farieda Nazier and Alberta Whittle will contest the visible and invisible boundaries in Johannesburg. Using the physicality of the body and its appearance as markers for access, identity, this performance functions as an intervention intended to challenge the “accepted narrative, which insists on an economic and social hierarchy of pilgrimage and aspiration".

Performances will take place on the following dates:

ROOM presents:

DEAN HUTTON

At the 2014 Edition of the FNB Joburg Art Fair, A body of work titled

Dean's Bed

Booth 12

22 - 24.08.2014

FNB Joburg Art Fair

Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg

Dean's Bed is Love, intimacy, dreams, longing, conceit, queer, identity, authenticity and beauty. 

It is made with people, not of subjects - Chosen family, old friends, new friends, artists. Working, playing, with the participants to reveal, but not capture, ultimate expressions of self… a naked… bare self that holds agency. Shifting photographer to participant, creating relationships and abandoning distance. Making Love. 

Like much of the artist's work, this series of intimate portraits challenges what is "normal" outside of binary concepts of gender, embracing fluidity and a comfortable expression of difference.  

Alongside the selected  large scale photographs, ROOM in association with Dean Hutton will also launch an exclusive collection of limited edition prints of the entire body of work.

Dean Hutton (b. 1976, ZA) is a genderqueer photojournalist and artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. Ongoing concerns include: Portraiture as co-authorship, Social media as narrative, Technology as self-reflection, Private narratives, Public conceits & Queer identity as Body of Work.

For more information on the artist and her work visit : http://www.2point8.co.za/

FNB Joburg Art Fair Opening Hours:

Friday 11am - 8pm

Saturday 10am - 7pm

ROOM presents an exhibition of new photographic works by

MACK MAGAGANE

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HERE

14.03 – 19.04.2014

Opening Reception, Friday 14 March 2014 from 6.30 pm at ROOM Gallery/Projects, Space #4, 70 Juta Precinct, Braamfontein, Johannesburg

Carpet Series: Date To be announced at ROOM