Recently opened in one of Durban’s top contemporary art galleries is the solo exhibition by Frances Goodman
? Frances Goodman creates atmospheric installations that cross the boundaries between visual and media arts. On the surface, her work looks at the everyday obsessions and superficial behaviour — the fanatic exercise culture, immutable conventions of marriage and beauty — of the South African middle class, yet what she actually explores is the coping mechanisms that a socioeconomic class of people has developed to prevail in a highly materialistic contemporary society. The media’s pervasive focus on the body and beauty creates an all-encompassing economy of desire in which the luxury of time and money inevitably leads to obsessive self-indulgence.
KZNSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer Road, Durban. Until July 23. Visit www.kznsagallery.co.za.