Loss and its remains 2017 - 2019

Artist's statement ​

Loss and its Remains included five artworks. Influenced by personal loss and Kristeva’s [1] writing on despair and sorrow, I evoke the relationship of loss and its tangible fragments. The research embraced the technically diverse, unified under a sub-theme of the fold. The use of folds, relative to specific sites, was a deliberate conceptual and structural device. Aligned with the broader theme of affect and complexity, I drew on Deleuze’s [2] writings on the fold and how thought is enfolded within itself. The recurrent motif of the fold was applied as a conceptual and structural tool. ​

The Unisa Art Gallery installation was curated to read from left to right, unfolding in three sections: On the left, occupying a focal position was the large oil painting, Folds: Assumed Abundance, the mid-section comprised of a series on Dams - an oil painting titled Dullstroom Dam and two ink drawings: New dams from the old and Record of Pangbourne; and on the right hand side, four photographs called Speak tenderly to my beloved I-IV. ​

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