Curated by artist Lien Botha, the show features work by 15 women working with photography and related mediums. From a broad environmental spectrum they select flowers and astronauts, earth, sand and water, men, women and gender-crossers, shapes domestic, abstract and industrial - and more. Our attention is held surprisingly often - not by eye-catching optical tricks, but with subtle and percepive insights.
Karina Turok's Five times Mandela illuminates moments in the life of the man far from his presidential concerns - contemplative while revisiting his cell, captivated by a baby's antics and enjoying an intimate exchange with Felicia.Turok's instinct seems to activate the mechanics just before the revealing instant.
Images in Lynne Stuart's Comparisons triptychs are not the same - not even similar.What is the link between a fish, a mass of shells and a few cows? Hard to see. But keep looking and interesting connections start to emerge.
Jackie Meiring's conventional approach to the series Under a Karoo Sky seems appropriate to the topic.On another level however, she plays with concepts relating to the permanent and the transient. Ancient faces seem as integral to the landscape as gnarled tree trunks, while solitary dwellings erected on sand might drift away with the wind.