Stretched Until Seen Through, 2022 (Poster)

Exhibition poster for:Turiya Magadlela‘Stretched Until Seen Through’04/28 → 06/03 2022DTLAPress Release: Simchowitz DTLA is pleased to present Turiya Magadlela: Stretched Until Seen Through, her first solo exhibition, and the gallery’s second, at Simchowitz DTLA. Raised in Soweto, a tight-knit suburb outside Johannesburg, Magadlela’s textile abstractions are an odyssey of references, channeling the racial, sexual, and economic conditions of her native South Africa into formal, paint-less investigations of color, gradient, and material. Magadlela’s artworks straddle the space between painting, sculpture and textile art. Strips of featherweight stocking fabric are delicately grafted together, then pulled taut on canvas. This creates evocative, sometimes jarring geometries under tension that remain framed by the canvas’ four corners – a decision Magadlela attributes to her fine arts education in Johannesburg and Amsterdam. Her compositions are erotic, but can explore so much: the stories