Art historian and curator Rory Bester has selected works from the museum’s permanent collection and augmented these with loans that reflect on the patterns of repetition and recognition in turning over and overturning of art histories. 50/50 is a collation and juxtaposition of historical and contemporary works, all viewed through a responsive, documentary lens. As these repetitions and recognitions accumulate over time they come to bear on signifiers such as monuments, monumentality and iconoclasm, secrets and lies, the rise and fall of ideas, culture, cultivation, movement and mobility.

5 November 2015 – 23 April 2016

With: Avant Car Guard | Willem Boshoff | Kudzanai Chiurai | David Goldblatt | Dumile Feni | Randolph Hartzenberg | Samson Kambalu | Kemang Wa Lehulere | David Mogano | Robin Rhode | Cecil Skotnes | Sue Williamson

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