Please join us for an artist walkabout with Vas Putter and the artists taking part in Averting the Gaze this Saturday, 01 February 2025 from 10h00.

Averting the Gaze explores the lenses we wear as free individuals in a now freed country. Do we acknowledge the role we may play as consumers and internet scrollers in a supply-and-demand chain of events that may perpetuate neo-slavery?

We are bombarded with online images and information, and the time we spend glancing at adverts, staring at screens or interacting on social media is impacted by which images grab and hold our attention. We must ask – what we are perpetuating by looking away or averting our gaze?

The exhibition is a project of Vas Putter in collaboration with Ann-Marie Tully and John Roome (Art Print Studio – KZN), Helge Janssen, Sankree Padayachee, Mervyn Pollitt, Sinethemba Ndimande and Suraya Tewary.