Some images

For those who are eager to see what the show is all about, but haven't yet managed the journey to the Johannesburg Art Gallery, here are some photographs taken by the excellent Simon Marcus.

 An installation view of the exhibition in week 1.

 

 Alex Dodd's installation Making Room, which uses works from the

JAG Collection, found objects and a text written by Dodd. 

 Thenjiwe Nkosi's three paintings Gallery 1 (1915), Gallery 1.1 (1940s)
and Gallery 1.2 (1980s)

A better view of Thenjiwe Nkosi's Gallery paintings

Alexander Opper's work

Accumulation #1 (approximately a century's worth of cornice dust from the Johannesburg Art Gallery)
(found dust on paper)

Phillip Raiford Johnson's Running Clock, a working digital stopwatch with flourescent tubes.
The clock runs in minutes and hours and is attached to a movement-sensor device that causes it to reset whenever someone walks past.