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’.