In the #OFMArtBeat, Mid-Morning Magic’s Yolanda Maartens chats to Professor Peter Glendinning about the new and exciting exhibition titled Attached to the Soil.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the NWU Gallery and the Visual Narratives and Creative Outputs (ViNCO), the Fulbright Scholar Program and the Michigan State University.

 Prof Peter Glendinning shares some of the stories behind the photos in his exhibition.

At the North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, Glendinning collaborated with students and members of the research niche ViNCO (Visual Narratives and Creative Outputs) to create their own photographic projects. The students were asked to develop their own metaphor derived from their perception of South Africa, to collaborate with Glendinning in recording an oral history interview regarding the insights and story of their chosen portrait subject, and create a tableau portrait of the sitter in a setting that captured the metaphor and the sitter’s oral narrative.

The product of this phase (2019) of the project was a collection of 50 portraits, each accompanied by the students’ metaphors and the stories of the portrait subjects. Those works comprise the content of the exhibit, Attached to the Soil.

The exhibition is currently on until 16th September 2022 at the NWU Main Gallery.

To read more about this exhibition visit www.nwu.ac.za