What Does it Mean

Can work carry an artist statement without it having a verbal or written presentation on it? Do the audience always know what an artist meant before they even went through their work? Or does this saturation of images in today's imagery saturated world distort or confirm this meaning? What role does an artist statement have to play and can it involve the audience in it's meaning?

These questions inspired this project we envision at the Geothe On Main. It's this gap between what the artist intended to say and how the audience receives the work? How gap inform or distort the meaning of an artist's work. We then saw it fit to have an exhibition that involves more of the viewer's participation, as a meaning is more than a fixed process.

An exhibition that will open with no artist statement presented to its audience, the show will invite the viewers to participate in the whole exhibition. As opposed to them coming and viewing work on a white wall and keeping their views about the work to themselves. We will present work that already has an artist statement that will be developed through the people's participation.

Date: 21 April 2016 to 26 May 2016
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Venue: Goethe On Main, Johannesburg