With all the global art world chaos, it's both necessary and reassuring to return to the classics. Can human beings ever see into an animal’s mind, or an animal into a human’s? This question that had haunted painters during the Renaissance continues to this day. South African visual artist Nicola Bailey’s solo exhibition Between Dog and Wolf / Entre Chien et Loup foregrounds the hound as a companion species.

Bailey observes; “I am particularly interested in forms of consciousness in other creatures. Dreaming and conscious emotional states are not exclusive to humans, I would like this inquiry to shift past hierarchical narratives to ideas of equality, interdependency and the fact that animals dream too. The opaque and intangible nature of animals dreaming reaffirms our sameness; there is no other”. “In the act of drawing, Bailey collaborates with her subjects; she reaches the edge of what she has become in the act of observing them”, writes Keely Shinners in the exhibition catalogue.

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Thirty-one-year-old Beth Diane Armstrong is regarded as a leading sculptor of her generation. For the last number of years, she has worked predominantly on monumental artworks made of mild and stainless steel. Multimedia artist Dineo Seshee Bopape (35) uses experimental video montages, sound, found objects, photographs and sculptural installations in her work which has been shown in the US, the Netherlands and the 12th Biennale de Lyon.

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