“Feminine painting is propositional rather than assertive, it questions the motive and intent of the making... It is not a question of the decorative or nondecorative, it is a question of the personal and impersonal. Stable and unstable, passive and aggressive, conceptual and intuitive.”!

“Does she come with the painting? Because that would be a good deal.”"

“The twentieth century has been one of extreme trauma. Aesthetics and the matrixial gaze can play a large part in healing past and future traumas through present occasions of communication”#

“Hey lady take me home I’ll eat your ass for R20 anyday girl fuckin’ mooi wit poes”!

“I wish I could laugh
But that joke isn't funny anymore”"

For this show she pokes a stick at abstract painting in its masculine, modernist hangover. This is accompanied by sculpture, video and installation fallout.

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!Shirley Kaneda, “Painting and Its Others: In the Realm of the Feminine” 2001

"A visitor speaking to The Gallerist in front of The Artist, June 2013
#Bracha L. Ettinger in conversation with Griselda Pollock, December 2011 !A passerby speaking to The Artist, Woodstock, June 2013
"The Smiths, “That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore” from Meat Is Murder, 1985

Kerry Chaloner was born in 1985 in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has worked as a model, actress, fashion designer and stylist. She studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art graduating in 2012. Since then, Kerry has produced two exhibitions, "MiniMal Jungle" and "This Is What" at EVIL SON in Cape Town. In February this year, she represented EVIL SON at Supermarket Independent Art Fair in Stockholm. "First Time" is her first solo exhibition at blank projects.