Cape art pick: December 9 2011

Catch What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, an exhibition about love in all its maddening complexity—raw, sexy, sometimes embarrassing, often heartbreaking and necessarily flawed and contradictory.

Photographer Pieter Hugo slyly inverts his usual exploration of “the other” and presents his closest friends in a series of provocative “anti-­portraits”.

Anton Kannemeyer engages raw desire in his starkly unambiguous erotic etchings. Filmmaker Zina Saro-Wiwa explores the complexity of public and private space in a small, heartbreaking video work. Other featured artists include Dineo Seshee Bopape, Wim Botha, Penny Siopis, Francis Alÿs, Meschac Gaba, Ernesto Neto, Claudette Schreuders, Nicholas Hlobo, Yiadom-Boakye, Igshaan Adams, Deborah Poynton, Viviane Sassen and Simon Gush.

Stevenson Gallery, 160 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock. Tel: 021 462 1500. Website: www.michaelstevenson.com.