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09:30 - 17:00
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With an increasing focus on African Art around the world, Eclectica Contemporary aims to present a carefully selected and focused collection of art from the continent that interrogates the issues facing us in a globalized world. The art at Eclectica often shows practices and materials familiar from art history but which push these boundaries and explore uncharted territories of representation, technique and theory.
Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Eclectica Contemporary sees itself as an African gallery with an international vision. We celebrate the diversity and depth of art making on our continent while aiming to contextualize this for a growing global market.
Our program of exhibitions shows a mix of solo shows by gallery artists alongside curated group shows. In addition, the Eclectica Contemporary exhibition space has facilities for experimental, new media and project-based works.
What Was, What Is, What If interrogates the dialectical relationship between order and chaos within contemporary creative practice, positioning discontinuity and fragmentation as generative forces that challenge traditional paradigms of artistic production. Through a critical examination of rupture, incompletion, and aleatory processes, the exhibition presents a theoretical framework for understanding how disruption operates as both methodology and metaphor in contemporary cultural production.
Participating artists: Shaquille Aaron-Keith, Cathy Layzell, Loyiso Mkhize, Lars Fischedick, Williams Chechet, Ayogu Kinglsey, Ebenezer Samuel Akinola and Anthony Lane
The exhibition is on display from 6 to 28 February 2025.