Vault Research hosts Strange Dualities: Contemporary Interventions to a Modernist Biography

I am pleased to be exhibiting a selection of woodcut, frottage and sculpture, at this exhibition bringing together an exciting group of contemporary artists.

This exhibition forms part of the VIP Programme of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026 and runs for the duration of the fair and the following week, to give visitors time to attend.

A little more about the exhibition from the Curators

Ina Voloshin and Phillippa Duncan have, for this exhibition, brought together contemporary artists whose work resonates with the studio output of Erik and Claude.

The exhibition is hosted at Erik&Claude, a space that is not only the home of the aforementioned twin-set's archive but also invites contemporary artists, through its programming, to use the space for exhibitions and interventions.

Artist couples have been universally described as twin sets, artists paired through their personal relationship but differing in their artistic output. In reference to the work of Erik Laubscher and Claude Bousharain, this is immediately apparent. From the mid-1950s, Erik’s work shifted almost exclusively to landscape, not traditional representation, but rather to a visual exploration of colour, form, and rhythmic patterns bordering on abstraction. Claude, with an undergraduate degree in child psychology, applied her brush to render the internal world visible, abstract thought figuratively depicted on her canvases.

Featured artists

Cathy Stanley | Edinah Chagwedera | Galia Gluckman | Janice Codron | Karen Elkington | Kristen McClarty | Lila Kibel | Lolo (Lethohonolo) Ntsewa | Luxolo Witvoet | Mbulelo Lokoto | Ontisitse Manyeneng | Thomas Rebok

I will share the Exhibition Catalogue when that is made available.