In the Making

The exhibition showcases works by the three members of the Non-Site Art Collective — Adelheid Frackiewicz, Davina de Beer, and Franli Meintjes. Through the combination of these three independent artistic explorations the show aims to contribute to ways of understanding how personalised processes embedded in a rich sense of materiality result in unique visual languages.

These visual languages not only reveal themselves, but they converse with each other and result in dynamic expressions of constantly being ‘in the making’. Frackiewicz constructs her often large-scale sculptural works by casting site-specific materials which she relates to places or bodies of trauma — like earth, hair, nails, and bone ash — into transparent resin soap bars. De Beer creates disrupted pattern paintings in acrylics or mixed media on canvas and attaches the unstretched works directly to the wall, or places them together in painting installations.

Meintjes’s abstract figurative fibre works are suspended from the ceiling or wall-mounted, creating an immersive installation that beckons close-up investigation into a fantastical realm. Each of the artists’ processes becomes a personal ritual. The materials explored in the exhibition primarily include resin, acrylics, canvas, embroidery thread, and fibre, and are unpretentiously presented and celebrated in their rawness.

The fluidity of the resin, although contained in Frackiewicz’s soap bars, is reflected in the drips and hanging threads in De Beer’s paintings, as well as in the hanging fibres in Meintjes’s works. The exhibition juxtaposes repetitive actions such as casting, embroidering, knotting, and weaving, and in doing so attempts to reveal a nuanced perspective on ways of making sense of being in the world.