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Burning Issues

Item date(s): 2017

Alexander Opper


Medium: Paper
Size: 3000 x 3000mm
Technique: Milk, fire
Edition: Unique

Type: Unbound sheets
Theme(s): Language; Hegemony

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: The artist
Exhibition 2017

Reference note:
My artistic practice is based on a radical shift from making architecture towards its unmaking. From an earlier practice-base of doing, to one of Undoing Architecture, a practice of architecture-in-reverse has emerged. All my projects are situated in a productive field of tension between art and architecture. They decode and re-present architecture, space and power. Much of my work is based on Johannesburg. It wrestles with the expression and translation of line, boundary and territory, within and between this city's multiplicities of liminal conditions. These ideas manifest through a wide range of media, including language, installation, photography and video. Burning Issues addresses the stubborn hegemony of English in the ongoing South African (SA) colonial project and the glaring suppression of other languages in the current Education crisis in SA.

Individual pages containing heat-induced imagery consisting of letters forming words of different languages



Exhibition notes:
‘Booknesses: Contemporary South African Artist's Books’.

FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg.

Curated by David Paton and Eugene Hon.

24 March - 5 May 2017



Ref: DP/17004













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