22 november 2022Haroon Gunn-Salie in Residency in November – December 2022
The Thami Mnyele Foundation welcomes the new Thami Mnyele Foundation Residency Award winner Haroon Gunn-Salie in Amsterdam! Gunn-Salie will participate in the IDFA Forum and DOC Lab 2022 with work ‘Zonnebloem renamed District Six’.
‘Zonnebloem renamed District Six’ is a social experiment by artist and activist Haroon Gunn-Salie that pushes the boundaries of Virtual Reality. The project aims to rebuild a place that has since been destroyed and exists only in the history, memory and identities of its former residents.
Haroon Gunn-Salie was a resident at the Thami Mnyele Foundation Residency in 2017 to prepare for his participation in the exhibition ‘Tell Freedom: 15 South African Artists’ at Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort.
ARTIST BIO
Haroon Gunn-Salie (Cape Town, South Africa, 1989) is an artist and activist who believes that art has real potential to effect changes in society.
Gunn-Salie’s multidisciplinary practice draws focus to forms of collaboration based on socially engaged dialogue and exchange. Gunn-Salie’s work has been included in significant exhibitions: New Museum Triennial (2018); Frieze Sculpture, Regents Park (2018); South African Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia (2015); and 19º Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc Videobrasil (2015) and solo exhibitions include Zeitz MOCAA (2021); Mendes Wood DM, Galpão Videobrasil, Museu de Congonhas (2016); and at Goodman Gallery (2015).
Gunn-Salie completed a BA Hons in sculpture at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2012 and has been awarded the SP-Arte / Videobrasil prize (2016), the FNB Art Prize (2018).
