117 Long Street
Cape Town
Tuesday – Friday
10:00 – 16:00
Saturday
10:00 – 14:00
Nel is a new gallery on the corner of Long Street and Church Street – owned and directed by artist Luan Nel, alongside his partner and spouse Neil Pendock. The main feature of the new space is the Salon Long – an ongoing group exhibition or ‘hang’ that is constantly changing and evolving.
The gallery will be open but practicing social distancing is a necessity. Everybody entering must wear a mask and have their hands sanitized. 8 people per time in the space only is permitted, spread over both floors.
The last exhibition that was shown at Nel - The Hang Turns Queer - co-hosted by Cape Town Pride for Pride Month, never concluded due to the lockdown. It went into a kind of freeze, out in the empty city in an empty gallery, showing beautiful art to nobody. During lockdown Nel was approached by Pride Afrique, an organisation planning a Pan-African online Pride festival consisting of a host of talks, discussions, narratives, poetry and art. Our queer hang changed, evolved a bit and easily found a home within this event.
Almost a month later we are again approached by a Pride organisation - United Prides of Africa - another large Online Pride event that aims to bring all pride and pride like organisations together in celebrating our diverse and varied community from over ten other African countries including Madagascar. The hang has been adapted and grown with a portion now solely online. There are however still works to be viewed in the gallery and this First Thursday is the opportunity to do so. United Prides of Africa will livestream on the 26th of September but the exhibition is already hanging. Come have a look.
1 October 2020
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