Wits Fine Arts students

3 - 8 October 2015

Opening Saturday 3 October at 14:00

This student-run project started in 2011 at the Wits School of Art and culminates in an annual exhibition as well as a print portfolio, hosted this year by GALLERY AOP. The project was initiated by Niall Bingham, Printmaking Technician at the Wits School of Art, who anticipated the possibility of interfaculty collaboration − or even connections with institutions outside the university − that would draw upon students’ own printmaking methodologies and ideas as the basis for establishing new relationships and conversations.

This year the student group has collaborated with various other departments at Wits: Archaeology, Architecture, Engineering, Linguistics, Medicine, Music and Urban Planning. 

'Our aim was to develop a dialogue with specific faculties and departments and in so doing, create a work, or a body of work, that reflects an engagement with an individual, group, or entire department. Through this, we attempted to broaden the institutional constraints that come from being situated within a specific space.

The project is revolves around the idea of a mathematical theory termed the ‘The Pigeonhole Principle’: Imagine that three pigeons need to be placed into two pigeonholes. While this is possible, no matter how the pigeons are placed, one of the pigeonholes must contain two pigeons. This fact speaks directly to the points of intersectionality present within the university system as well as being pivotal to our project.'