Role/robes, Fried Contemporary

An exhibition of artworks by some of South Africa's top award-winning contemporary artists that deal with the different roles that South Africans have played and continue to play, the ‘robes’ that have been and are worn at different times and places -- whether real, imagined or virtual.

Wendy Morris

(Direction and animation)

Taste the world (2006)

Charcoal drawings filmed on 16mm

Digitalised for projection on DVD

Running time: 4min

Belgian resident Wendy Morris's film, Taste the World, has been shown on various international film festivals and is a short drawn film that explores tourism as a form of neo-colonialism.

Wilma Cruise

Role over (2002-2006)

Ceramic, metal, cloth, shoe and chair

Installation size variable

Figure: 140 cm x 80 cm

Diane Victor

The Emperor’s New Clothes I, II and III (2006)

Smoke and charcoal on paper

80 cm x 160 cm each

Bongi Bengu	Ngong leaf series # 1 (2006)	Mixed media on canvas	101 cm x 95 cm
Bongi Bengu	Ngong leaf series # 2 (2006)	Mixed media on hessian	100 cm x 137 cm

Carine Zaayman

You owe me some happiness, in truth you do (2006)

Edition of 5 Lambda prints

Lightjet print

50 x 100 cm

Carine Zaayman

Vain ascension (2006)

Edition of 5 DVD imprints

Digital video projection

1 min 42 sec

Frikkie Eksteen

Trailblazer (2006)

Animation projected onto pot plant

Dimensions variable

Kudzanai Chiurai

Grace Land (2006)

Mixed media

Dimensions variable