Gallery brings to life the violence, sex and more of K Sello Duiker novel
STEVENSON Gallery director Joost Bosland so loved K Sello Duiker’s 2001 novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams he bought "a pile" of them and handed them out to young artists. To his astonishment many had not heard of Duiker, nor the novel.Now Borland and artist Moshekwa Langa have put together a two-city exhibition that refers to the novel’s exploration of insanity, violence, sex, xenophobia and other dark aspects of modern life in SA. It will run at the Stevenson Galleries in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and at the Mother City’s Blank Projects gallery, from July 21 to August 27."I read it in 2004 and it stayed with me," says Bosland. "I always wanted to do something with it."Kabelo "Sello" Duiker’s debut novel, Thirteen Cents, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. He committed suicide in 1995, aged 21.Bosland says discussions with artists such as Nicholas Hlobo and Robin Rhode revealed that others had also been touched by Duiker’s novel, which trac...
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