Unbound

At Berman Contemporary, we believe artistic production is as valuable as artistic presentation.

Each July, UNBOUND transforms the gallery into a working studio, inviting one artist to develop a project within the gallery over the course of a month and making the creative process visible to the public.

Rather than presenting completed artworks, the residency foregrounds process, experimentation, and artistic inquiry. Visitors are invited to witness ideas taking shape, engage with materials and methods, and encounter the often unseen stages of artistic production.

UNBOUND creates conditions for artistic research, experimentation, and production to take place within the gallery itself.

Mending A Kitchen Table

Camilla Pontiggia is a Johannesburg-based artist, filmmaker, and researcher whose practice explores embodied forms of knowledge, care, memory, and repair. Working across installation, performance, textiles, food, and participatory processes, she investigates how everyday acts of making can become sites of connection and reflection.

For Mending A Kitchen Table, Pontiggia brings the kitchen table into the gallery as a site of ongoing research and collective life. Through bread, clay, textiles, and acts of mending, the project asks what it means to repair relationships, histories, and ways of being in the presence of others.

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As part of her UNBOUND residency, Camilla Pontiggia presents a series of live encounters that unfold through making, conversation, food, and participation.

These events form part of the artwork itself and invite visitors to experience the residency as it evolves over time.

Attendance is free, but booking is essential.

Performance Encounter

11:00–13:00

Each encounter begins with a performative gesture of approximately 20–30 minutes, followed by a more informal period of participation and conversation.