GIRLS 3000

In 2024, Dominique Cheminais and Keely Shinners curated a pop-up exhibition called GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS that took place over the course of two nights at Brett Charles Seiler’s Cape Town studio. The show explored femininity and its discontents through works on paper and artist-crafted garments. In 2025, they followed up the show with a sequel, GIRLS TOO: TOO MUCH, NEVER ENOUGH, which gathered a group of eighteen artists at Lemkus Gallery to think more deeply about the questions ‘What is it that makes us girls?’, ‘Who’s us?’,‘What’s girls?’

Since then, the duo have opened a project space in the heart of Cape Town called GIRLS GALLERY. GIRLS GALLERY exhibitions are both ambitious and DIY, erring on the side of the maximalist, the over-the-top, the wacky, weird, glamorous, too-much side of life. The aim is to produce shows that are surprising, unexpected and inventive, incubating the talents of emerging artists while giving established artists the opportunity to experiment and play.

GIRLS 3000, a collaboration with Everard Read, is GIRLS with the volume turned up. The works meditate on femininity at the edge of femininity: its contradictions, excesses, slippages – its mess.