REMEDY 
Featuring work by Leila Abrahams, Dominique Edwards and Jeanne Hoffman 

‘Remedy’ brings together the work of three women artists who use their process-based practices to counteract the harms of  present-day lived experience. The exhibition considers these paintings, sculptures and tapestries against the backdrop of  what Louis Bourgeois described as “restoration”: ‘the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make  something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole.’  

We are used to thinking of art as a mental endeavour, but it is a product of the body, which translates into the work itself.  While all three artists make use of distinct media, their work embodies how art-making itself can provide a way to negotiate  the socio-political, bodily and gendered contexts into which we are born, as well as provide a literal form of therapy.

Everard Read, Leila Abrahams, A is for Anxiety, Medical Gel Capsules and Polyester.

REMEDY opens 6pm Wednesday 6th September and runs until Wednesday 27th September.
Everard Read Cape Town 
3 Portswood Road | Waterfront | 8001

WELL, THERE GOES THAT DREAM 
Featuring Warren Maroon  

“There is no dreaming when in a state of survival.” 

This body of work by Warren Maroon – an artist originally from the Cape Flats – is underpinned by themes of hope  intermingled with despair. The people of South Africa are in survival mode, asserts Maroon, hanging on to what little hope they have. 

Maroon, inspired by an Arte Povera aesthetic, creates work using mostly found objects to communicate aspects of his – and  others’ – lived experience. His work translates familiar objects using a graceful sculptural language of reverence and  contempt to convey an existence between violence and vulnerability.  

“Our political climate is not making things any better,” he states. “There hasn’t been a South African government that has  worked for people of colour. The poor are poorer and the dreams of something better seem to be further away. With the  rising cost of everything, the rolling blackouts and corruption it seems that hope is fading.” How do we exist in a place that  both makes and breaks us?

Everard Read, Warren Maroon, You Stole My Heart, Waxed Paper and Barbed Wire.

WELL, THERE GOES THAT DREAM opens 6pm Wednesday 6th September and runs until Wednesday 27th September.
Everard Read Cape Town 
3 Portswood Road | Waterfront | 8001

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