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11 June 2021
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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Photo Courtesy of artists and the Johannes Stegmann Gallery.
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Liminality is an exhibition of first-, second- and third-year student’s work in the
Department of Fine Arts at the University of the Free State (UFS). The works are from 2019 and 2020. Created during the hard lockdown of 2020, the artworks provide a glimpse of what students had to deal with and overcome during these times.
In a proposal for the exhibition, Angela de Jesus, Curator of the UFS Art Galleries, wrote: “The subtitle of the exhibition is ‘threshold, transition, transformation’ and it refers to the creative processes that students engaged with
in these adverse circumstances resulting in a wide array of artworks in both traditional and adapted mediums.”
The exhibition speaks to our shared experiences of insecurity, fragility, and discord, and to the resourcefulness and immutability of creative expression.
The virtual exhibition runs until 2 July 2021.
The exhibition is also currently available for viewing at the Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Sasol Library, UFS Bloemfontein Campus. Monday - Friday 09:00 - 16:00.
MEGAN JOHNS, Battleground, Tobacco, charcoal dust, plaster of paris and resin, 93.5 x 50 x 7.5 cm
JACOBETH SELINGA, Linda, Installation: Found bed, wool and thread, 257 x 196 x 91 cm
POLOKO MOHANOE, Prayer for rain, Gouache on Fabriano, 66 x 72.8 cm
SEBOTSE SELAMULELA, In my image (Coronavirus head), Clay, 35 x 40 x 60 cm
WILLIAM SHAER, Creator, Deconstructed chair, koat wood and Imbura wood, 100 x 75 x 45 cm
Johannes Stegmann Gallery
Interior of the Johannes Stegmann Gallery
University host annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa
2014-01-15
The Department of Philosophy will be hosting the annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) from 20 to 22 January 2014. Over 80 philosophers from Southern Africa and the rest of the world will be participating in the programme. The topics of the papers range from ethics and beliefs to epistemology, socio-political philosophy, natural philosophy, phenomenology, virtues, logic, etc. The conference programme and registration details can be found here:
http://conferences.ufs.ac.za/default.aspx?DCode=725 . Day visitors are welcome to attend the conference. Please contact Helen Cawood at
cawoodh@ufs.ac.za for further information.
Prof Rudi Visker from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, author of books on Levinas, Heidegger and Foucault, who will be speaking at the conference.