23 kilograms
Curated by Bettina Malcomess in collaboration with Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, with Zen Marie Donna Kukama Francis Burger, Siemon Alan
http://www.galeriewest.nl/exhibitions/13_01_23_kilograms/press
A project that engages the question of distance: '23 kilograms' is an allusion to a limit, or the necessity to work within specified limits: the weight of luggage permitted for international travel.
A group of South African artists will work at a gallery in den Hague in an interactive connection with FUNBURO .
A messenger, Donna Kukama will carry a selected number of items to the laboratory of Lyon. The works exhibited will tell how distant places are bought closer via the news, information technology, cultural and social media and the 'network' that increasingly defines the global and the 'art world' as an instance of this. The artists are interested in generating responses to the power of 'information' to project an image of a place, but will also reflect on what it is that does not translate.