SEAN SLEMON: IN THE RED/IN THE BLACK at BRODIE/STEVENSON (JHB)

rodie/Stevenson is pleased to present its first exhibition of 2010: In the Red/In the Black, an exhibition by Sean Slemon comprising installation, drawing, print and video.

The show takes its title from a site-specific work located in the project space of the gallery. A dead tree has been given a second life - resurrected to perform as signifier and stand-in. Gilded with gold leaf and suspended in the centre of the room using red and black ribbons, the tree is a marker of the relationship between nature and finance, a metaphor for the mode of consumption that dominates both realms. It makes subtle reference to the terms 'in the black' and 'in the red' which describe the financial status of a company or an individual.

The tree that endlessly grows and then disappears in the animated video Public Property (2007) offers a meditation on the patterns of growth and decline.

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am to 5.30pm, and Saturday from 9.30am to 3pm.

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