'Dada South? Flight Paths' (2011)

'Dada South? Flight Paths' (2011)The Dada movement with its emphasis on play, absurdity and surrealism has proved potent inspiration for a host of artists and institutions since its early 20th century inception in Europe. The exhibition Dada South? (2009 2010), curated by Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith at the South African National Gallery, considered the movement in the Global South, and South Africa in particular proving, amongst other things, that European Dadaists were familiar

democracy in South Africa starting with the election campaign in 1994

and philosophy in art

Scheepers manipulates and plays with material garments to create large expansive works that loosely resemble the human form

as well as the artist’s own writings

Coetzee continues

and the younger women respond

if not entirely constructed

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of imprisonment

I see them as moving pictures

never fails to elicit interest and controversy