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Everything I Never Told You - A Solo Exhibition by Bernice Stott

Everything I Never Told You - A Solo Exhibition by Bernice Stott

Date: 2018-01-19

Durban artist, Bernice Stott, opens her new solo exhibition intriguingly titled, Everything I Never Told You, in Artplus Gallery, 32 Solstice Rd, uMhlanga on 1 February in which she considers a less obvious and opposing view of the female body using pen and ink drawings rendered on lightweight acid free paper, displayed in suspension so both the front and the reverse side of the image can be viewed.

"The reverse side is more ethereal and mysterious than the 'front' view, presuming the 'front' view to be explicit. It is a resistant view in that the sensuousness of the body is subtle and the subject seems to have more ownership of how she wishes to be viewed," considers Stott.

"The human narrative holds mystery for me and is at the centre of my work. I am also intrigued by the female body in contemporary South Africa and social issues of the environment. Currently I am drawing and painting although photography has led me to into the media of video and performance art. Art making feeds my soul: it is a place of solitude yet it provides me with an engagement of both my internal and external life.

"The female body has been a consistent interest of mine. Figure drawing is arguably the most difficult subject an artist commonly encounters. Artists draw from live models or photographs, memory and imagination. Drawing from imagination is often lauded for the expressiveness it encourages, and criticised for the inaccuracies introduced by the artist's limited memory in visualising the human figure. The 1970's saw a burgeoning of artists focusing on ways in which the female body is presented, particularly focusing on female objectification; where a woman is viewed as an object whilst a man is the viewing subject. In the history of painting this dominant view came to be identified and named the 'male gaze'."

Everything I Never Told You will be on display at Artplus Studio 32 Gallery: 32 Solstice Rd, uMhlanga Ridge from 1 February until 1 March. There will be a public walkabout with the artist on Thursday 8 February at 11:00am.