Whispers From the White Space

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Notes

1 The 135-meter tall Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London.

2 “Both holdups occurred in Observatory, a mainly white working/middleclass area in the Southern Suburbs (of Cape Town). In one holdup Raaff was injured by a bullet” (MacKenny, 2011).

3 “Google Earth, an Earth mapping program utilizing satellite images and aerial photography, was available for use on personal computers in 2005. It was thus a relatively new tool for public use at the time that Raaff decided to use it” (MacKenny, 2011).

4 Mathew Freemantle, Trail 2017 (exhibition statement). Smith Gallery, 2017.

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Gabrielle Raaff

Gabrielle Raaff was born in 1970 in Johannesburg and lives in Cape Town. She graduated with a BAFA (HDE) from the University of Stellenbosch in 1992. Her exhibitions include the 2017 – Trail (solo) show at Smith; 2016 – Nano, Barnard Gallery; Paper Is You (group), Salon 91; 2015 – However: Works on Paper by South African Artists, Art Hub Gallery, London; Group show, Apperture Gallery, Paris; Night Watch (solo), Salon 91; Empire (group) at Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town; 2014 – Rotterdam Art Fair, the Netherlands; Turbine Art Fair, Salon 91, Johannesburg; Scintilla: An Alchemy Show, Commune 1 Gallery, Cape Town; Paper Is You II (group) Salon 91, Cape Town; 2011 – Realm, Salon 91, Cape Town; People, Chagan Contemporary, London; Paper Is You (group), Salon 91, Cape Town; 2009 – In Our Midst (solo), Muti Gallery, Cape Town; 2008 – Periphery, These Four Walls, Cape Town; 2007 – Finalist exhibition, Spier Contemporary Art Awards; 1998 – Unplugged, Rembrandt Van Rijn Gallery, Johannesburg.

Color versions of one or more of the figures in the article can be found online at www.tandfonline.com/rcin.