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Beyond The Vanishing Point / Strange Negotiations

Item date(s): 2017

Maaike Bakker


Size: 180mm, oblong
Technique: Digital print

Theme(s): Visual cacophony

Place publication: Pretoria
Publisher: The artist
Exhibition 2017

Reference note:
Beyond the Vanishing Point explores the gradual expansion of a visual line system which keeps expanding throughout the book. As the pages progress and the lines keep interlinking, subtle glitches start appearing. Lines gradually start to misalign, and the sequence slowly collapses, taking on a sort of visual 'broken telephone'. Through the increasing irregularity of the lines, all visual rhythm is lost, resulting in lines without any clear intent or direction. A visual cacophony, caused by randomly overlapping lines, concludes the book and the visual system is thereby rendered futile.

Digital printing on paper, wibalin bound

180 x 250mm oblong

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/17051











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