‘Elemental’ was held at What if the World Gallery, Cape Town, in November 2015.
Read a review by Ashraf Jamal here.
As much as I could, I abandoned conscious intent. At times I even abandon my right hand. And, as objects, images and processes emerge, they tell some sort of evolutionary story. Primordial forms materialise in clay, and Lego objects experiment with pattern and structure. Collections of tumbled and polished bricks evoke human settlement and activity, while other works explore evolution’s crossroads and culs de sac alike. High seriousness meets the one-liner, and geological report and mythological account are accorded equal weight in images of the cosmos and its inhabitants made in materials as diverse as bronze, concrete and skateboard wheels.
Asterism and (detail) 2015
Skateboard wheels, copper, hardware
Dimensions variable
Lion 2015
Bronze, skateboard wheel, hardware
Approx. 17 x 13 x 37cm
Asterism and Lion, installation view
Lego Lab 2015
Lego, plywood, glass
110 x 160 x 40.5cm
Lego Lab (details) 2015
Distributary 2014 – 2015
Polyethylene foam, hardware
189 x 183 x 73cm
Undermonkey 2015
Bronze, brass, hardware
Approx. 17 x 26 x 17cm
Terminates 2014
Brick clay, hardware
Dimensions variable
Sames and (detail) 2014
Brick clay, hardware
Dimensions variable
Ruminants (and detail) 2015
Brick, hardware
Dimensions variable
Tributary 2015
Linocut
79.7 x 110cm
Hominids 2015
Concrete, bricks
102 x 66 x 8cm
Elemental, installation shots, 2015
All photographs courtesy of WhatiftheWorld.