Excerpt: I Feel Therefore I Think Goliath Extending trauma studies into new territory, Jill Bennett proposes a philosophically informed way of engaging politically with traumatic feeling in visual art. She does not present a new philosophical theory of affect, but her mapping of observations from trauma studies onto Gilles Deleuze’s perspectives on art and thought is innovative. She draws first from Proust...

deepskin7works Looped video showing Quagga Project; Gilets de Sauvetage; Natives to Police; Rooiland series; 28 series; Guns R Us; Daniel van Wyk. Prices and info from Nathalie Miltat (contact@lanoiregalerie.fr)

 Par Nathalie MILTAT Le travail de Gavin Younge pose la question de la représentation de la violence mais aussi des traumatismes qui en découlent, et qui traversent toute l’histoire de son pays, l’Afrique du Sud.  Dans quelle mesure les arts visuels peuvent-ils matérialiser les blessures physiques et psychiques, l’altération des lieux et des choses, et alors même que l’on en est que témoin ? A...

Resistance Register « Marlene Dumas - 1976 » Gavin Younge, 2009 Serigraphie sur papier coton, 594 x 840 Originally produced in the mid-1970s at the time of political unrest following renewed attacks on the Black Trades Union movement, this series called on artists to ‘resist’. The series included Bruce Campbell-Smith, Nial Kramer, Michael Oblowitz, Paul Stopforth, Rosemary Hochshild, Marlene...

Deep Skin à Cosmopolis, Nantes. 17 juin - 12 juillet - info: Nathalie MILTAT E-mail: contact@lanoiregalerie.com Tél : 00 33 1 42 39 17 66 Samuel Hendricks. Gavin Younge/Vanessa Cowling 2009 Deep par Maud de la Forterie (extrait du catalogue) Aux confins de la perception et du ressenti, les œuvres de Gavin Younge sillonnent les blessures traumatiques d’une Afrique du Sud en pleine mutation sans pour autant...

  Rooiland series - Nongoloza, 2009, Stencil on calf-skin, 980x800 The discourse of criminality in the Western Cape is suffused with the mythology of the Numbers. In the absence of written texts, researchers have had to rely on oral history. According to Jonny Steinberg, members of the 27s and 28s offer different explanations of the origin of their prison gangs. Steinberg, who interviewed gang members serving...

“La Noire Galerie has the pleasure of introducing to the Parisian public the work of Gavin Younge, an internationally renowned South African artist. Drawing from his experience of a society moulded by violence, Gavin Younge denounces that violence and analyses the social, political and cultural problems that it generates. The recurring use of vellum, a natural organic material, to wrap his sculptures, suggests...

Two Democracies consists of a vellum-covered chaise longue onto which a looped video image is projected. The form of the chaise longue references the psychiatrist’s couch and draws attention to the somatic states of longing, belonging, human frailty and notions of health and well-being. The vellum is sutured into place as an analogy for surgical procedures and as a metaphor for healing. The image consists...

Salles Jean-Hélion, Issoire. 5 July – 28 September 2008 Curated by Estienne Blécon, the exhibition profiles a projection by Gavin Younge (Curating the Waves) and installations by French artists Sagot+Becquimin (La Cellule), Sylvander, Fend and Everaert. Curating the Waves is a meditation on African wars and the persistence of memory.  Four distinct sites are evoked: the private swimming pool as a cypher...

En partenariat avec Art Actuel, la Ville de Levallois présente, à l’Escale, l’exposition dévoile en trois parcours, que la création contemporaine africaine, loin du cliché d’un certain artisanat de pacotille, a su s’approprier tous les fondamentaux de l’art actuel : abstraction et conceptualisation, engagement social et politique, nouveaux supports et installations. In partnership...