FOREX Project Series at The Michael Stevenson Gallery

Offering an uncynical look at a cynical world

Michael Stevenson is pleased to present This is Our Time - a curated exhibition of local and foreign artists - as part of the gallery’s FOREX project series.

The FOREX project series runs from June 2009 to June 2010, and uses the foreign exchange market as a metaphor for an exchange of artistic ideas with a world beyond Africa, aiming to seek out affinities, illustrate shared frames of reference and explore intellectual kinship.

The series has included solo projects by Zina Saro-Wiwa, Zineb Sedira, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Thomas Hirschhorn, Walid Raad and Glenn Ligon. It will culminate in June 2010 with This is Our Time, a curated exhibition of local and foreign artists across the spaces of Michael Stevenson in Cape Town and Brodie/Stevenson in Johannesburg.

The title of this show comes from a speech given by Barack Obama while visiting Europe before he was elected president of the United States.

The exhibition is characterized by a heartfelt yet nuanced approach to politics and brings together art from elsewhere in which we South Africans see glimpses of ourselves, and works by South African artists that resonate within an international framework. Collectively, the show will offer an approach that eschews binaries while taking positions, ultimately offering an uncynical look at a cynical world.

Curator Joost Bosland will give a walkabout of the exhibition at Michael Stevenson in support of the Friends of the South African National Gallery on Friday 4 June at 11am. Cost is R20per person, all are welcome.

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