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ERF #3

Item date(s): 2016

Mbali Mdluli


Medium: Lifestyle magazine
Size: 165 x 300mm
Technique: Collage
Edition: Unique

Type: Altered magazine
Theme(s): Landscape; Displacement

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: ROOM Gallery & Projects
Exhibition 2017

Reference note:
Torn magazine stripped of its primary colours and reduced to black and white parts of the magazine. The image resembles an imagined and a nonspecific landscape.

The works reflect on a sustained concern with the dimensions of photography and the medium's lassitude in the face of a lived experience. The personal narrative that informs this body of work relates to a moment of an experienced displacement. From the strewn belongings, a large collection of home décor and design magazines was retrieved, which were then cut, ripped and torn into, to essentially transform them into undulating and contoured images presented as objects which function as emotional residue.

By constructing imagined landscapes, the use of horizontal lines portrays the tensions that exist in expressing personal events.

Cut Lifestyle Magazines on black mount board, framed and mounted on a wall

Imagined, nonspecific landscape



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/17059









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