Niklas Zimmer: Kotiljons

11 May – 8 June 2011

iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art

iArt Gallery is pleased to present, for the first time, a collection of photographs by Niklas Zimmer, curated by Jacqueline Nurse. Kotiljons started its life as a collaboration between Zimmer and Willemien Froneman, a PhD candidate at Stellenbosch University under Prof. Stephanus Muller’s supervision. The photographs were commissioned to form the basis of a chapter of Froneman’s Ph.D. project in ethnomusicology as “a photo essay (and sometimes visual ethnography) on the carnivalesque at a contemporary boeremusiek event” (WF) – namely the 21st anniversary celebrations of the Boeremusiekgilde, held in 2010 at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. With Kotiljons, iArt is presenting a selection of this body of work.