Exhibition

Reclaiming Magic 253rd Summer Show

14 Sep 2021 – 2 Jan 2022

Regular hours

Thursday
11:00 – 16:00
Friday
11:00 – 16:00
Saturday
11:00 – 16:00
Sunday
11:00 – 16:00

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253rd Summer Exhibition

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Reclaiming magic is really about two things. 

First of all it’s about artists actually being able to work viscerally and from their own instinct. It’s important not to inhibit the creative process.

The second part is the general perception of magic, or ideas around magic which are perceived as being foreign to western ideas and western enlightenment culture. The term has connotations of dubiousness, unseriousness, of child’s play and the occult.

To reclaim magic means to regain power over the word. Magic is not the spectacle for the foreign onlooker, it is deeply ingrained in certain pan-African cultures and is a continual source of cultural creation.

This exhibition seeks to transcend a Western art history perspective to focus on the transformative powers of the magical in art, and a return to the visceral, joyful aspects of art-making.

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