The title of the viscerally vapid circus of postmodern surreality that is Carmen Sober’s exhibition speaks volumes of the artist’s philosophy and modus operandi.
Girl You Know It’s True is the name of the exhibition as it is the name of the pop song by 80s duo Milli Vanilli which revealed the band as a pair of talentless clowns who were pawns in a cynical marketing exercise. Sober’s work reveals a passionate interest in the relentless blizzard of pop culture that is built on the pillars of falsehood, fraud, lies and deception yet one that society can’t stop swallowing to the point of engorgement. The pas-de-deux between the propagators of the base, the prosaic and
pornographic and those who compulsively consume it is the tension at the centre of Sober’s vortex of costume, drag, disguises, moustache, staging, wit, narratives, cliché and memory expressed in the media of photography, installation and performance.
KZNSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer Road. Until March 12. Tel: 031 277 1705 Email [email protected] Visit www.kznsagallery.co.za