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Fanie Buys

Sat, 15 May

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99 Loop Gallery

99 Loop is pleased to present 'Miss' by Fanie Buys, opening soon!

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Fanie Buys
Fanie Buys

Time & Location

15 May 2021, 10:00 – 26 Jun 2021, 14:00

99 Loop Gallery, 99 Loop St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa

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About the Exhibition

"Miss South Africa is the specter and the scepter which presides over us (“us” being: gay children in the Garden Route). Like pendulous jewels perched on the crown, the winners glimmer and refract the moment of crowning: tenuously set in the tangled filigree of national discourse.

Starting as an exercise, ending as an obsession, I have set to painting every titleholder from 1990 (the decade of my birth) onwards. Aiming for somewhere between gesture and ethereal I want these paintings to touch on the sometimes tawdry material reality of this polished ritual: make up wipe shroud of Turin.

These works seek not to make a value statement but rather, in their effusive alacrity, seek to hold a moment through the illusory nature of figurative painting: disjointed brushstrokes fabulous and fetid." - Fanie Buys

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