5 MAY- 23 MAY 2009, Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

CURATED BY JULIA ROSA CLARK

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: BRIDGET BAKER/ EMMA COLEMAN/ SUE CLARK/ TOM CULLBERG/ ANJA DE KLERK/ BAREND DE WET/ PETER EASTMAN/ TEBOHO EDKINS/ GUS FERGUSON/ GIMBERG & NERF/ DOUGLAS GIMBERG/ MATTHEW HINDLEY/ PITER HUGO/ MANDY LEE JANDRELL/ JOHN NANKIN/ SARAH NANKIN/ HEATH NASH/ CAMERON PLATTER/ ANDREW PUTTER/ GREGG SMITH/ DOREEN SOUTHWOOD/ JAMES WEBB/ ED YOUNG/

Sing Into My Mouth* takes as its curatorial lead one established by Tacita Dean in her exhibition, An Aside. Resisting establishing a clear thematic curatorial framework, Dean embarked on a period of non-linear meanderings, guided by idiosyncratic interests, chance, association and coincidence to a set of works that make up the final whole – a process not unlike that used in her own art production.

Like Dean, Julia Rosa Clark has followed a series of disparate clues and eccentric threads on her unknown route to the final proposition. The culmination is a group exhibition of selected artworks and a free printed booklet – the curator’s anecdotal writing about the works on view.

Sing Into My Mouth includes enquiries into the nature of intimacy, desire, influence, exchange, memory/ false memory, self, autobiography, interpretation, poetics, contingency, dormancy and resurrection.

For further information see:

http://www.whatiftheworld.com/exhibitions/2009/05/05/sing-into-my-mouth/