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What’s the importance of this exhibition? NOT A SINGLE STORY celebrates women’s
historical impact on the influence of shaping narratives. The landscape has an expansive vista that becomes a catalyst for thinking creatively and allows people to broaden their intellectual, physiological and mental capacities.
What was the approach in creating the exhibition?
It started with a dialogue on two continents between two sculpture parks: the Nirox Foundation and the Wanås Foundation. The
dialogue informed the exhibition’s theme, NOT A SINGLE STORY, which was inspired by Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie Ngozie’s TED
Talk describing the danger of a story becoming the only story. We wanted to give the artists the freedom to explore within that framework.
How were the installations planned?
We invited artists and galleries to participate and they sent in proposals. These were discussed and finalised by the Nirox team, after which
production began. Some of the artists will take up a residency to make/complete/install the work themselves. The other works are pre-existing pieces that will be crated and transported to us by road and sea.
After the exhibition, many of the works will
be returned to the artists, some will end up in collections, while others will be disposed of.
Those that remain on view may disintegrate,
depending on their material, or even transform into plants.
Which artists were approached and why? Women dominated the draft of our first list, so
we decided that was the way forward – a natural response to a very singular art history.
To understand the different working methods related to sculpture, we wanted a mix of ages and backgrounds, as well as a combination
of forerunners and emerging talents. We wanted to give South African artists lots of space and were eager to introduce some great Swedish ones, as well as the queen of conceptual art, Yoko Ono [the Japanese-born widow of slain Beatle John Lennon].
Other participating artists include Jane Alexander, Gunilla Klingberg and Peter
Geschwind, Lungisiwa Gqunta, Mwagani Hutter, Bronwyn Katz, Esther Mahlangu, Nandipha Mntambo, Sethembile Msezane, Zanele Muholi, Caroline Mårtensson, Claudette Schreuders,
Mary Sibande, Whitney McVeigh, Nelisawe Xaba, Beth Diane Armstrong and Sethembile Msezane.
What do you hope visitors will take away from the exhibition?
Raised consciousness – and that could mean
actually leaving something behind, if you follow Yoko Ono’s instruction: “Write your wish on a piece of paper and hang it on a tree.”
THE NIROX FOUNDATION
South Africa’s Nirox Foundation, in collaboration with Sweden’s Wanås Foundation, will exhibit NOT A SINGLE STORY from 12 May-31 July this year. Curators Elisabeth Millqvist and Mattias Givell tell us more
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