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Zwischen den Seiten - Die Schatten Durchstreifend
Between the Folds - Drifting Among Shadows

Item date(s): 2016

Keith Dietrich

Medium: Paper; Tracing paper
Size: 315mm
Collation: Two volumes
Technique: Digital print

Theme(s): Psycho-geographic walks, Dresden, Leipzig, loss of memory, concealment, loss of knowledge of histories, catastrophe, forgetting, erasure, silence.

Place publication: Stellenbosch
Publisher: The artist
Exhibition 2017

Reference note:
The book maps out 7 psychogeographic walks that I undertook in Dresden and Leipzig where I followed my great-grandfather's 'shadow' between the places he lived in these cities before emigrating to South Africa in 1861. The work constitutes an interplay between loss of memory, silence, self-imposed silence, concealment and the loss of knowledge regarding past histories, events, entanglements and catastrophes, and plays with the notion of forgetting as repressive erasure and humiliated silence. Images and texts are read through transparent pages and between the folds as layers and intertexts inscribed over one another, and as such read as palimpsests.

Two digitally printed volumes constructed from tracing and cotton paper, sometimes punched with holes. Texts and images partly concealed in blackened pages or bound between the folds of the pages.

Digital print on cotton paper; tracing paper; book

315 x 180mm

Theme: Psycho-geographic walks, Dresden, Leipzig, loss of memory, concealment, loss of knowledge of histories, catastrophe, forgetting, erasure, silence.

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/17045