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Diana Vives & Douglas Gimberg

March - April 2025

Diana Vives and Douglas Gimberg have begun their residency at NIROX, presenting Folie à Deux—a body of work shaped by their decade-long dialogue as partners in life and art.

Directly translated, the title means ‘the madness of two.’ In psychiatry, it refers to a shared delusion, a disorder where belief is contagious between two or more people.

The exhibition brings together six works, arranged in three distinct pairs—one by each artist—mirroring the resonance of their exchanges and the shifting associations that emerge in dialogue. At the core of their practice is the transformation of matter—living, inanimate, or human—caught in states of entanglement and flux. Their works exist in tension and balance, implicating the past as an active force within the present. Through self-referential, physical, and metaphorical explorations of material, they navigate themes of extraction, entropy, and regeneration.

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MATTHEW LANNING

March - April 2025

Matthew James Lanning has begun his residency at NIROX, continuing his exploration of architecture as a reflection of ideological forces. His work engages with David Goldblatt’s The Structure of Things Then, extending the conversation beyond apartheid-era architecture to contemporary housing structures shaped by late capitalism’s extractive dynamics. Lanning questions how material, form, and process define both space and humanity in an era where imagination is constrained by crisis. His inquiry into minimal urban spaces suggests that built environments are not just shelters but sites of potential—where material presence becomes a marker of human presence, shaping both the present and what is yet to come.

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RESIDENCY SPACES AND SERVICES

COOLROOM

UPSTAIRS STUDIO

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WORKSHOP

LOUNGE/DINING

COTTAGE

LOUNGE

MUSIC ROOM / STUDIO

Accommodation consists of a two bedroom double-story house facing north overlooking the Sculpture Park, with a large double-volume studio, mezzanine work space, lounge, dining and entertainment facility. Adjoining the house is an open-fronted sculpture workshop and a second studio.

A separate self-contained 2-bedroom cottage facing west overlooks the water, sheltered from the afternoon sun by aged Bushwillows.

Residencies are fully serviced with meals prepared by Maria and her team in the house kitchen, good 'rural' wifi, and assistance with sourcing materials, building and making to good standards by our management, ground staff and resident carpenter.

A short walk across the lawns of the Park is the Coolroom Complex, a large multi-functional workshop/studio, a Screening Room with cinema seating, a small studio and curator’s office.

The Sculpture Parks’ 30 hectare garden is shared with the public on weekends and with pre-arranged visitors during the week. Residents’ privacy is protected, but it is in the nature of the Foundation’s purpose to encourage engagement.

The restaurant, ‘... And then there was fire’ is open to the public. Residents are encouraged to enjoy its active program of music, performance, culinary-school, yoga, talks, poetry, fashion and related activities; to be part of Bernardo and Manu’s passion for food and the exulted life we hope to bring to South Africans and visitors from afar.

RESIDENCY SPACES AND SERVICES