Event: Kopanong Art Studio Residency Programme Exhibition 2024: Threads of Resilience by Odirile Khune Motsiri
When: 27 July to 15 September 2024
Opening event: Saturday, 27 July 2024, at 10:30 for 11:00
Where: Pretoria Art Museum
Cnr Francis Baard and Wessels Street, Arcadia Park, Arcadia
The eighth iteration of the Kopanong Art Studio Residency Programme Exhibition returns featuring the work of Oridirile Khune Motsiri. The Kopanong Art Studio Residency Programme challenges the participating artist to produce an entirely new body of work by exploring the frontiers of their current themes and art media. The artist is encouraged to experiment with new media and explore different formats of presenting their work to the public.
Motsiri has spent a year in residency at the Pretoria Art Museum, conceptualising and executing artworks through denim and textiles. The results: A body of work that consists of two-dimensional fibre artworks and a modest foray into three-dimensional art pieces through a collaboration with one of the alumni of the residency, Theophelus Rikhotso. This exhibition, Threads of Resilience, endeavours to comment on labour and leisure through denim fabric as a main medium complemented by corduroy, a combination of synthetic and natural fibres as well as found materials, thus implicitly articulating the dynamic meaning of the denim fabric in our contemporary world through visual narratives.
Kopanong Art Studio Residency Programme 2024: Threads of Resilience by Odirile Khune Motsiri will be on show in the East Gallery of the Pretoria Art Museum on Tuesdays to Sundays from 10:00 to 16:00, with guided tours arranged by appointment. The exhibition will be on show until Sunday, 15 September 2024.
Information and enquiries:
Odirile Khune Motsiri: 079 096 6096 or odirilekhunemots@gmail.com
Mmutle Arthur Kgokong (Museum): 012 358 6752 or mmutlekg@tshwane.gov.za