Self portrait with Christopher, Covent Garden Hotel, 2011
If there is one photography show you go to see this year make it this one. The AVA Gallery in partnership with Spier presents DIDN’T WANT TO BE YOUR GHOST, a photographic exhibition by incredible young talent Natasja Maria Fourie.
Natasja’s work has been published in VICE, GUP, ART das kunstmagazin, Eyemazing, Dazed Digital, PONCZ, Colors and DESIGN INDABA publications and her most recent exhibitions were a group show in Los Angeles at the Jancar Gallery entitled “Reìcits des trois perverses: femmes seulement” and the New York Photo Festival in Slideluck Potshow XVI, curated by Whitney Johnson, who has just recently been named Director of Photography for the New Yorker.
About this exhibition:
 In DIDN’T WANT TO BE YOUR GHOST, Fourie offers the viewer insight into a collection of intimate moments. The exhibition hangs like a poem of photographs in which Fourie explores her personal curiosities and fears. Gravitating towards content that scrutinizes the complexities of companionship, intimacy and the vulnerability of the human body, Fourie’s images capture how we share our thoughts, feelings, lives and bodies. Fourie and her subjects are at times perfumed with a spray of sentiment, emotion, fantasy, and in other instances they are stripped raw, reflecting realties of decay, mortality and ruin. DIDN’T WANT TO BE YOUR GHOST is a brave exhibition that exposes the photographer to the voyeurs gaze; it’s a poetic self portrait of a young woman exploring her reality.
Details:
Opening at 18:00, Monday 7 May 2012.
Exhibition closes at 13:00, 1 June 2012
Association for Visual Arts Gallery
35 Church Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Get acquainted with Natasja’s work at www.natasjamariafourie.com
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