Gallery MOMO Cape Town. Unresolved Category

Unresolved Category is an acknowledgement of contemporary painting in its current state. This exhibition does not claim to innovate the medium in any way. In fact, painting has been declared dead so many times since the daguerreotype that its ‘re-invention’ feels like a redundant activity. Rather, Unresolved Category puts a spotlight on painters who extend, overlap, crack, and smudge the familiar to propose continuous progress to the medium.

Sixteen artists, hailing from South Africa, Iran, Italy, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Cameroon, comprise a polyphony of painters decentralising the material through multidisciplinary practice. Splintered universes collide before the viewer, triggering issues of history, memory, narrative, and science. Unresolved Category invites you to a painting show of sensory experience where the medium’s materiality, monumentality, and complexity blur the lines of expectation. 

Gabrielle Kruger | Sunette Viljoen | Byron Fredericks | Asemahle Ntlonti | Joël Mpah Dooh | Sepideh Mehraban | Ronald Muchatuta | Ayanda Mabulu | Adele van Heerden |  Ferdinand Kidd | Stephané Conradie | Katharien de Villiers | Vivien Kohler | Niccolò Masini | King Debs | Abdus Salaam

17 June - 10 August 2019
Gallery MOMO Cape Town
16 Buiten Street, CBD