MILK
Nel Art Gallery 07 - 30 July www.nelart.co.za
Above: From the second M I L K Edition 2022. Opposite Page: Tosca Neena, from the series ‘Not the Ladies’ 2022.
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I L K is an interdisciplinary project founded in February 2022 by Zimbabwean painter Gillian Rosselli, the South African photographers Neena Borrill and Tosca Marthinus and Zimbabwe based Austrian photographer Martina Gruber. M I L K emerged as a necessary pop-up collaborative laboratory during the 2022 Cape Town Art Fair in celebration of visibility off the mainstream commercial art world. The 4 artists spontaneously shared a studio space in Cape Town for the initial period of 1 week and embarked on a journey of multiple performances, photo shoots, investigating and exploring frameworks of diverse socio-economic-political circumstances and realities. The work evolved under the umbrella of ‚Current Affairs 2022 – Conversations about the Body‘ M I L K’s aim is to work as a collective in multiple safe, accepting environments where new narratives of this kind will be open to engaging conversations, allowing the artists
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to integrate individual ideas and explore possibilities of a common vision. “The body of works M I L K creates and performs together with their bodies and the camera are personal reactions to situations they witness, in person or from a distance, in the past and in the present. Using their bodies as a language that communicates where words fail“. As artists working in different mediums and coming from different social-cultural backgrounds we look at possible and extended areas of collaboration, crosscultural, cross-national, cross-continental. Where does one individual end and the other begin? Where do we speak in one voice, where do we draw the line and where do we see possibilities and necessities to cross over and reach out and step into the other‘s fields, and occupy fields together? Where do we agree and where do we disagree?
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