It has been more than a year since the Covid-19 pandemic has permanently altered most sectors of South African society by forcing a rapid migration into virtual spaces. This is also true for art, which is experienced through gallery websites, virtual exhibitions, online art fairs, online art festivals and social media. Interfaces provide intersections – meeting places – between artists, users, technologies and audiences. They provide seemingly boundless accessibility but are far from transparent. The Interface Exhibition brings together a selection of artists that grapple with the concept of ‘interfacing’ as a meeting point  – or arguably, in some understandings, an absence of ‘meeting’ ­– and changing relationships to sociality, the experience of art and embodiment.  

Interface Exhibition is brought to you by the University of the Free State Art Gallery. It will be accompanied by a physical exhibition in 2022 that will further interrogate the exchange and contradiction between these spaces that are ‘inter’. 

Curated by Miné Kleynhans and Teboho Mokhothu