Gina Heyer: Threshold
3 - 25 February 2010
iArt Gallery, 71 Loop Street
Gina Heyer, a Master of Fine Art student at Stellenbosch University, will have her first solo exhibition at iArt Gallery between 3 and 18 February 2010.
Comprising her body of Masters work, the exhibition is concerned with subtle metaphysical and uncanny aspects of seemingly ordinary and unoccupied interiors. Playing with tensions between absence and presence, Heyer paints moments of stasis between human comings and goings. These spaces are both real and imagined, in which one is not sure what has or is about to happen. Heyer achieves this mysterious effect through discreetly negotiating the boundaries between the concepts of reality, unreality, the sublime and the contemplative working with oils and glazes on board and on a small and intimate scale to draw the viewer in. The spaces are beautiful and calm but somewhat unnerving, temporary and strange. As the rooms are vessels for our bodies to inhabit, the paintings become chambers for the mind to contemplate.
