Curated by Kyle Richard Solms and featuring more than 20 emerging visual and performing South African Artists, this exhibition seeks to investigate the strangeness of the human position - this body of flesh and bones with the ability to experience consciousness – and hopes to echo that eternal human process of recording the simple fact that we exist. Otherwise, Healthy hopes to carefully unpack the insanity of the individual experience, the profoundness of the shared collective, the exhilaration in self-discovery, the comedy of personality, the looming fear of mortality, and the utterly bizarre concept of meat suit expressing ‘identity’.  This exhibition will explore the human body as a metaphor which transcends textbook meanings of “health”, speaking to a functional or dysfunctional society that may in fact be ill within its own realms.

This three part exhibition, sets out to discover how these constructs intersect, erode, mutate, atrophy, or even reproduce when colored by our inherited notions of physicality, spirituality, sexuality, normality, community, ancestry and legacy.

Second part: An exhibition showing the work of five invited artists whose works will fill the gallery from 2 September through the 16th. Second, a series of performances will present the pieces of several artists over the course of four weekly performance evenings. These pieces will be presented on an upper floor of the gallery and participants are encouraged to leave performance remnants in-situ for successive days at the conclusion of their piece. 

Third part: a series of workshops and collaborative sessions that may include screenings, life drawing sessions, panel discussions and interactive events will occupy the upper floor of the gallery. These events are designed to allow for collaboration, exploration and content creation within the exhibition.  Participants are encouraged to create and leave elements of their participation for a specified time in the venue for audience members to engage with.

Featuring Artists: Adrian Owen; Esti Strydom; Kelly John Gough; Daniel James; Bongani Vincent; William Scarbrough; Brandt Schuller; Tosca Neena; Francois Knoetze; Denisha Anand; Jacolize Swart; Jimmy Law; Kyle Richard Solms; Schalk Du Plessis; Nicholas Smith Smith; Vuyokazi Ngemtu; Gordon Ross; Douglas Gimberg; Melani Rene; Karen Harkema; Donatella Visagie; Miranda-Jane Barnard; Olivia Seay; Paigen Kotze;; Rian Oliver; Robert Duncan; Simone Marinus; Stian Deetlefs; Tapiwa Sunga Konji; Tessa Teixeira; Tharien Smith; Wickwithattitude