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 HyperFable Opening: 10 October 2026 at 11:00 - 31 October 2026 Participating: Group exhibition HyperFable - Association of Arts Pretoria
“HyperFable”, curated by Johan Conradie, brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists who engage fantasy as a critical and imaginative mode of inquiry. Spanning painting, drawing, mixed media, digital art, and textile practices, the exhibition emerges from an ongoing studio mentorship that includes both established artists and emerging practitioners at significant stages of their development.
The exhibition explores how artists employ fantasy not as a form of escapism, but as a powerful strategy for critique, speculation, and world-building. Through invented narratives, mythical structures, hybrid realities, and imagined futures, the participating artists address the contradictions, anxieties, and aspirations that shape contemporary life. They occupy a fertile territory between the familiar and the impossible, revealing how imagination can expand the limits of what is thinkable, visible, and socially conceivable.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek observes that “fantasy is not the opposite of reality; it is the support of reality itself.” Fantasy functions as a generative structure through which reality is experienced, narrated, and contested. Within contemporary art, it becomes a critical medium capable of exposing hidden desires, unsettling dominant narratives, and constructing speculative worlds through which new possibilities may emerge. The exhibition invites viewers into a constellation of imagined realities—worlds that illuminate the present precisely by exceeding it. In doing so, the exhibition asks how fiction, myth, and imagination might help us understand not only who we are, but who we may yet become.
VENUE:ASSOCIATION OF ARTS PRETORIA Address: 173 Mackie Str, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria Tel: 012 346 3100 / 3110 || Cell: 083 288 5117 Email: artspta@mweb.co.za Gallery Hours: Tue to Fri 09:00 - 17:00. Sat 09:00 - 13:00.
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