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’.