Exhibition Type: Group Exhibition
Artist(s): Michael Meyersfield, Tiaan van Deventer and more
Venue: KINGSBRIDGE ART GALLERY
Address: 15A Bellville Business Park, Mike Pienaar Boulevard, Bellville West
Opening: 03 September 2026, 18:00
Exhibition End Date: 27 September 2026, 18:00
Description:
A Sense of Place
In this exhibition place is treated not as a backdrop but as an interlocutor: landscapes, streets, and interiors speak through texture, light, and the indexical trace of the photographic process. The works gathered here interrogate how geography is folded into memory, how architecture and topography encode histories of belonging and displacement, and how the camera – whether analogue or digital – translates lived experience into a material archive. Each frame stages a negotiation between presence and absence, between the specificity of site and the universal grammar of image-making, inviting viewers to attend to the sediment of time embedded in surfaces, edges, and shadows.
Collectively, the series proposes a poetics of orientation: images that resist facile mapping and instead cultivate a mode of attention attuned to nuance, contingency, and the ethical demands of looking. Through sustained encounters with these photographs, the exhibition asks us to reconsider what it means to inhabit a place, to remember it, and to render it legible – not as a fixed coordinate but as an ongoing, contested act of perception.
