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Jenkin van Zyl: Dance of the Sleepwalkers

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Strange exhibition at Eden Assanti of new work by Jenkin van Zyl. These were weird sci-fi like drawings which I gather from the blurb were part of “world-building that occurs within fringe subcultural communities”. It’s not an aesthetic that appeals to me and I didn’t get a lot from them. I did however like some of the frames which had added detail like switches and the ring pulls from fuzzy drinks. Closed 9 March 2024

Oren Pinhassi: After Pleasure

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Interesting exhibition at Edel Assanti of new sculptures by Oren Pinhassi. The works were made of burlap and sand.   Each stood like human figures on a rock but took on more amorphous shapes. They worked well as a group but I’m not sure how they would work on their own. I would like to have seen them in an outdoor space where they would have had a good dialogue with the space around them. Closed 9 March 2024

Noémie Goudal: Post Atlantica

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Beautiful exhibition at Adel Assanti of new work by Noémie Goudal. The work was a series of installations and videos which reflect the environment and climate issues. I finished a course on the sublime today and I think the works would fit with that definition. The main work, shown here, is a sculptural work which at first appears as a flat image, however you can walk around and through it and it changes as you do. Downstairs was a mesmeric video of a pool of water from which other photographic images of a similar environment rise and fell. Each image disrupted the reality you were seeing and you stayed to watch the effect of them coming and going. My favourite piece was a triptych video of waves hitting rocks which was layered and seemed to be a film over a statistic image. At times it stopped showing the image below which then made you try to look for the image beneath. It reminded me of one of my favourite places in the world, North Point in Barbados where you can stand and wa...