Gallery MOMO Cape Town. Dress Code

Gallery MOMO is proud to present Dress Code, a group exhibition exploring the use of costume in contemporary art. Dress Code features the work of well-established and new emerging artists, working in a variety of disciplines through the medium of costume.

Artists who work with the medium of costume seek to utilise, subvert, and critique its imposing character. As the nature of costume lends itself to performativity, many artists employ the medium of costume as a tool for social commentary. By linking what we wear to the complexities of representation and identity, Dress Code looks at ways in which costume becomes an evocative voice within contemporary art practice.

Exploring the medium’s collective and individual function, Dress Code looks to costume for signaling cultural belonging or aversion, and individual expression. This exhibition showcases the work of artists who employ particular techniques and materials to code and decode perceptions of dress. However complex the didactics of costume and the performativity of dress, consistent in Dress Code’s exploration of the discipline is a commitment to celebrating costume and its role in contemporary art.

Dress Code
11 May - 10 June 2017

Opening: Thursday, 11 May at 18:00
Performance by Quaid Heneke at 19:00
 

Participating artists: Ceil Ann | Lizette Chirrime | Rory Emmett | Ayana V. Jackson | Francois Knoetze | Lesiba Mabitsela | Maurice Mbikayi | Siwa Mgoboza | Sethembile Msezane | Lucy Robson | Mary Sibande