Risk
Exhibition 28 November 2019–9 January 2020
Installation photograph from the ‘Risk’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. On the left, Jane Alexander’s sculpture ‘Security Bird’ sits under a spotlight. On the right, Ulay and Marina Abramović’s performance video ‘Rest Energy’ is projected onto the wall.
Installation view: Risk curated by Josh Ginsburg, November 28, 2019–January 9, 2020. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title Risk Dates 28 November 2019–9 January 2020 Location Gallery Tagline An exhibition curated by Josh Ginsburg.
Curator Josh Ginsburg
Credits

Artists:
Ulay/Marina Abramović
Igshaan Adams
John Akomfrah
Jane Alexander
Mircea Cantor
Meschac Gaba
Kendell Geers
Pieter Hugo
Ernest Mancoba
Gimberg Nerf
Berni Searle
Lucas Sithole
Carrie Mae Weems

Risk is a show about vulnerability and possibility.

“In one respect, risk concerns precisely what we do not know and cannot properly predict. Often, especially at the level of collective risk, it concerns the intricate mechanics of complex systems whose precise workings will never yield to even our best models. But risk also implies knowledge: a recognition of what might come – perhaps even a glimpse of how likely it is – as opposed to a comprehensive obliviousness.”– Anna Hartford
“Risk is something carefully calculated, quantified and calibrated; very carefully, since unimaginable amounts of money follow, and are premised on, risk and its rewards. Yet risk is also something obscurely felt, imperfectly guessed at, roughly estimated via the sensory equipment of an individual human body now toggling constantly between the actual and digital.”– Hedley Twidle
Installation view: Risk curated by Josh Ginsburg, November 28, 2019–January 9, 2020. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
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Artworks and keywords, Risk curated by Josh Ginsburg, November 28, 2019–January 9, 2020. – November 24, 2023

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Artworks and keywords, Risk curated by Josh Ginsburg, November 28, 2019–January 9, 2020. – November 24, 2023
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Document, portrait, confront, travel, suspicion, margin, social-topography, observe, wild.

DIY, market, readymade, faith, museum, exchange, currency, biography, global, convention, nomad.

Time, figure, land-memory, body, vulnerable, beauty, spice, myth, consumption, colonial, absence.
Installation photograph from the ‘Risk’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. In the middle Igshaan Adams’ untitled fabric installation is suspended from the ceiling with lights partially visible through the fabric.

Ritual, liminal, family, push and pull, mystic, exchange, boundary, quiet, question, belief, home.
An installation photograph shows John Akomfrah’s three-channel video installation ‘Four Nocturnes’ projected onto three large screens.

Historical introspection, archive, environment, Black Audio Film Collective, tension, Anthropocene, persecution, migration, diaspora, Commander of the British Empire, expanded cinema.
Installation photograph from the ‘Risk’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. In the middle Jane Alexander’s sculpture ‘Security Bird’ stands on a found TNT explosive box.

Residue, white, bones, silence, beast, pity, disfigure, colonial, hybrid, spirit, land, trouble, security, faith.

Art Vital: No fixed living place, permanent movement, direct contact, local relation, self-selection, passing limitations, taking risks, mobile energy.

Ulay

polaroids, co-dependence, gender, performance, participation, audience, patience.

Marina Abramović

body-art, limits, endurance, gender, sacrifice, audience, celebrity, blood, ritual, mind.
A photograph of Lucas Sithole’s bronze sculpture of a mother holding a child.

Head, mythology, being, story, legend, wild, form, preacher, tools, snake, carve, wit.
Installation photograph from the ‘Risk’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. In the middle, Kendell Geers’ chevron danger tape and found object sculpture ‘Twilight of the Idols’ sits on a plinth.

Exile, fountain, humour, edit, pun, sign, subvert.

Humanity, exile, illusive, Modernism, carve, salvation, delicate, subtle, line, abstract, colour.
Installation photograph from the ‘Risk’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. On the left, Gimberg Nerf’s mixed media installation ‘Escape to Robin Island’ sits on the floor, tilted by a suspension rope attached to the ceiling.

Escape, mythology, archive, composite, invent, provoke, collaborate, believe.

Readymade, metaphor, conflict, media, language, encounter, hybrid, open.
An installation photograph shows Carrie Mae Weems’ photographic diptych mounted on a white wall.

Question, ritual, protest, core, stir, reverie, focus, power, fabric, grace, absence, trope, mirth, dance.
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