Opening on Monday 11 May at 6 pm

Pied Noir Essentially we are all Pied Noir black footed and dirty …a resentment to a calculated balance which excludes us exalted others .. ESSENTIALLY.

…As Amiri Baraka ‘said’ after the fall of the twin towers – of his fellow countrymen.

Pied Noir marks an overt formal departure from Rose’s previous solo exhibitions where previously series’ artworks pursued visual cohesion in Pied Noir Rose has drawn from selected artworks from both previously exhibited and unexhibited series’. From : “After Millet” – a Black and White photograph taken in 1994 prior to the first democratic South African elections in what was being named “Mandela- Freedom Park Squatter Camp” in the brink of Eldorado Park. The laboring old woman digs her home’s foundation, the gargoyle sneaker/takkie hanging from the tent pole, the sky resisting her ease bays down on her bowed back reflect that unaltered tragedy of poverty through time and century, geography, as is Millet’s “The Gleaners” (Des Glaneuses)1857.

…And script – text is now too important scrapping away layering labels not simple titles, as is the case in the green-screen backgrounds of Floating Cloud Reigning Deer, Pickaminnie and Resting Ben Side Banshee from The Cunt Show Version 1:2:1 (2008), and in the fragments from the Jerusalem Series : Old Jerusalem Pussy (2005-07) and Snake (2005-2009).

While Performance and that ‘found’ object make their appearance in the mismatched( ?) labels of “Tromp l’oeil (deux)” and “Zeitgeist” for the year of our time 2009.

About Tracey Rose...

Durban born Johannesburg reared and educated, Tracey Rose has exhibited widely within and without the African territory making her work magical in many spaces such as Espacios Mestizos, Osorio, Canary Islands (2003) ; Aggressions, Espacio C, Santander 2001 ; Faces of Truth, Ayloul Festival, Beirut, Lebanon ; both the 49th and 52nd Venice Biennales, as well as locally Trade Routes History and Geography, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale ; exhibiting her first solo exhibition at The Project, New York in 2000, while Plantation Lullabies and The Cockpit epilogued at The Goodman Gallery and MC (Los Angeles) respectively.

Venue
Gallery Gerard Sekoto
Alliance Française of Johannesburg
17 Lower Park Drive corner Kerry Road
Parkview - opposite Zoo Lake

The exhibition continues until Saturday 23 May.

Gallery hours
Monday - Thursday : 9 am - 8 pm
Friday : 9 am - 6 pm
Saturday : 9 am - 1 pm

For more information
Contact Pauline
culture.jhb@alliance.org.za
011 646 1169