Zeitz MOCAA BMW Centre For Art Education 2025 Matric Exhibition Documentary скачать в хорошем качестве

Zeitz MOCAA BMW Centre For Art Education 2025 Matric Exhibition Documentary

AREA CODES Against the Grain 2025 Matric Exhibition Where do you stay? Where are you from? Two simple questions, with far from simple answers. South Africa has a deep history of spatial discrimination, and the places we stay are one area where these scars are most visible. Our area codes, the four-digit numbers assigned to each suburb, cannot capture the legacies of history, oppression and memories of each person who stays there. What if we were to reimagine the boundaries of what defines an area code? These questions were posed to the Grade 12 Visual Art learners who participated in the 2025 Matric Workshop, to interrogate notions of place and belonging by looking at and researching their area codes. The Annual Matric Workshop, hosted by the BMW Centre For Art Education, invites Grade 12 Visual Art learners from around Cape Town to come together each year to engage with and respond to an exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA. Taking inspiration from Understudies, the solo exhibition by Nolan Oswald Dennis on the third floor of Zeitz MOCAA, the workshop began in April with four intensive days of discussion, experimentation and working in alternative mediums. At the end of the workshop, we asked the participants to research their own area codes, collecting found objects from the places they live, working in a similar fashion to the artists who created Xenolith: Letsema, in the Understudies exhibition. These found materials are the conceptual focal point of the artworks featured in this exhibition. These artworks were created over the course of nine weeks, with intense guidance, support and feedback from the facilitators in the form of crit sessions and working Saturdays, not to mention many afternoons spent working tirelessly after school and exams. Many of them worked in mediums completely outside of their comfort zone, experimenting and being exposed to techniques they have never had the opportunity to explore in the traditional classroom space.