Mikhael Subotzky – Water and Sunlight
Subotzky brings into focus dynamics of marginalisation and the continuities between the colonial past and the present, interrogating the structures of power that govern everyday life.
MAG2
The sacred container focuses on the physical and metaphysical neutrality of the exhibition space in order to isolate the artwork, preserve its “purity,” and remove it from any external cues that might interfere with its artistic status. The gallery space is designed according to rigorous principles: sealed windows, white walls, and overhead lighting. Conceptually, art is placed in a condition of exhibitionary eternity, outside time and the contingencies of real life. This environment functions like a ritual or religious space, one into which the outside world must not intrude. The container is so powerful that, once removed from it, the work may lose its sacred status and revert to being a secular object.
Mikhael Subotzky
MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY Artwork Exhibitions News Video Publications Bio Mikhael Subotzky – Water and Sunlight MAG2 MAGAZZINO D’ARTE OGGI Beaufort West No posts found! Mikhael Subotzky, Artist’s Studio, Johannesburg, 2025photo credit: Mikhael Subotzky Studio Mikhael Subotzky’s works are the results of his fractured attempts to place himself in relation to the social, historical, and political narratives…
MAGAZZINO D’ARTE OGGI
For the exhibition MAGAZZINO D’ARTE OGGI works have been selected regardless of a critical or conceptual framework. These pieces were not chosen because they illustrate an idea or contribute to a theoretical trajectory
Beaufort West
Exhibitions Installation Artwork Artists Video Publications Press Releases Two pieces of Beaufort West stand between its unemployed citizens and isolation: the national freeway and the local prison. For some two or three kilometres, the N1, the great highway that traces South Africa’s north/south axis, becomes Beaufort’s West’s main street. About a million people pass through…
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