RESERVOIR is proud to announce our participation in SPARK Art Fair Vienna 2025, showcasing a solo project by Cathy Abraham.

 

Find us at booth F13

Vernissage 20 March (by Invitation)
21 - 23 March, 2025
 

Marx Halle

Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19, 1030 Wien

Vienna, Austria​​

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Cathy Abraham (b. 1968 Cape Town, South Africa) specialised in process-based art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, where she earned a Post Graduate Diploma in 2016 and a Master’s in Fine Art in 2018. Her work is included in the IZIKO South African National Gallery Collection, the Spier Art Collection in South Africa as well as the Kilbourne collection in South Africa. 

 

“My practice is deeply rooted in repetition as a material prayer. Invoking transformation and healing, these prayers address past sufferings that continue to haunt the present. Appearing as shadows in the overlapping ‘ghosts’ of colliding brushstrokes, such hauntings give form to otherwise formless traumas, the apparitions tracing the wound in its residue. My unfolding engagement with numbers, symmetries, and ritual action is meditative and devotional, a means of transcending the self towards an understanding of the interconnected, miraculous nature of all beings.”   Cathy Abraham, 2025

 

In 2025 Abraham presented a solo exhibition, A Sacred Matter, at Everard Read, Franchoek, South Africa. Further solo presentations include: A Shifted Season, presented by Untitled at FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg, South Africa in 2024; The Fallen Sparks of Tohu, with IBI Art at Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey; Yielding to the Shadow, with IBI Art at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa, both in in 2023; Pathways at Everards Read, Cape Town, South Africa in 2022; Spaces: The Abyss of Deep Time, at The Fourth, Cape Town, South Africa in 2021; A Deeper Kind of Nothing and The Monument at Glen Carlou, Franschoek, South African in 2019.

 

Selected group presentations include: Investec Cape Town Art Fair with Locus Projects in 2025; RMB Latitudes presented by RESERVOIR, Johannesburg, South Africa in 2024; What I feel when I think about the cosmos at Everard Read Franschoek, South Africa in 2023; Seduction at Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa in 2022; Conversations with Irma at Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, South Africa in 2019.