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Beurspeur

Item date(s): 2010

Hennie Meyer


Medium: Leather wallet; Paper
Size: 120mm
Edition: Unique


Place publication: (Potchefstroom, RSA)
Publisher: The artist

Reference note:
A used man's wallet with poetry and artifacts of the poet.

Paper, leather, paint and ink

In the wallet are:

- Valid, citing Joan Hambidge

- Pit, photos and cents of poem

- Ekke, ID photo of the poet with the poem on back

- Looking for the g-spot, the back of an entrance ticket for a bar

- R10 notes with sayings on money (inc other banknotes)

- Phot of rags, writing on back, crumpled bank slip

- Handkerchief poem

Exhibition notes:
Included on the exhibition 'Transgressions and Boundaries of the Page', exhibited at WOORDFEES 2010. Archive Room in JS Gericke Library, University of Stellenbosch, 1st - 6th March 2010; The Gallery of the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 15th April - 13th May 2010; the FADA Gallery, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg, 12th - 30th July 2010.

Ref: DP/10056


   


   

Images courtesy Wessie van der Westhuizen NWU
   



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