Pretty Face.

Pretty Face, 2018
99 Loop Gallery
99 Loop Street, Cape Town, South Africa


Pather’s show oscillates between love and camouflage. Pieces work as a possible imagining of 'confidence' armour battling the somewhat abstract, but always consistent and even sometimes blatant shittiness of patriarchy.

 

Also, because women need to be all things to all people, all the time, the works are pretty and inspired by hoopoe crowns tempting lovers or art buyers. The prettiness acts as a camouflage shield to facilitate optimal acclimatization in a magpie led landscape of excess and overkill.

 

https://curatingculture.blog/2019/01/16/pretty-face/

Battle Notes I 

Mixed media, rejected painting 

on canvas 

125h x 105w cm 

Battle Notes II

Mixed media, rejected painting 

on canvas 

125h x 105w cm 

Haberdashery Warrior 

Mixed media on canvas 

120h x 100w cm 

Untitled
Mixed media on canvas 

76.2h x 101.6w cm 

Retired Femme Fatale 

Mixed media (eye shadow powder, sequins, household paint, ink, glue) on canvas 

76.2h x 101.6w cm 

Tight Flowered 

Mixed media (eye shadow powder, placemats, household paint, ink, glue) on canvas 

76.2h x 101.6w cm 

Hoopoe with teeth like scales 

Mixed media on canvas 

160h x 135w cm 

Red veiled, tight-flowered and bejewelled she left
Mixed media on canvas
61h x 46w cm

Mother-in law’s Tongue 

Mixed media on canvas 

76.2h x 76.2w cm 

Pretty girls always win 

Mixed media (eye shadow powder, synthetic hair, household paint, ink, glue) on canvas 

76.2h x 101.6w cm 

The Camouflaguer 

Mixed media on canvas 

160h x 110w cm 

The Soft Revolution 

Mixed media on canvas 

160h x 110w cm