Group exhibition · 2023

Liminal States

THK Gallery · Cape Town

Group exhibition installation with wall works, a circular gold-coloured work and sculptures on plinths — Installation view, Liminal States, 2023.

I deserve better, 2023 — a slender pale column with a red carved coil running through it, on a white plinth — I deserve better, 2023. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy THK Gallery.

We can do it together, 2023 — a terracotta-coloured pierced organic form with a granular surface, on a white plinth — We can do it together, 2023. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy THK Gallery.

I feel safe with you, 2023 — a grey speckled column carved open to a gold interior, on a white plinth — I feel safe with you, 2023. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy THK Gallery.

I feel safe with you, 2023 — a terrazzo and yellow resin column on a white plinth beside a gold disc, Liminal States at THK Gallery — I feel safe with you, 2023, in Liminal States, THK Gallery. Photograph courtesy THK Gallery.

Detail of I deserve better, 2023: a polished column with red lacquered openings carved through it — I deserve better, 2023, detail. Photograph courtesy THK Gallery.

Detail of I feel safe with you, 2023: grey terrazzo carved away to a yellow resin core — I feel safe with you, 2023, detail. Photograph courtesy THK Gallery.

The ground floor of THK Gallery during Liminal States, with I deserve better on its plinth at the right — Installation view, Liminal States, THK Gallery, 2023. Photograph courtesy THK Gallery.

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Date: 26 October–3 December 2023
Location: THK Gallery · Cape Town
Format: Group exhibition

A group exhibition at THK Gallery with work by Driaan Claassen, Leila Abrahams, David Brits, Jan Ernst, Pardon Mapondera, Gaelen Pinnock, Amy Rusch, Guy Simpson and Abdus Salaam.

The exhibition was built around material play and the transitions between states: nine artists whose work crosses the line between the precious and the everyday. Driaan Claassen showed sculpture from his continuing body of work on the structure of the mind and thought, in the abstracted forms — solid or fractal, geometric or organic — he works in bronze, wood and wire.

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