21 July 2011
Photographer Rachel Granofsky, from Montreal, Quebec, examines relocation through cut-outs, severed and repositioned in Cape Town's landscape. The disembodiment of disproportionate parts marks a disturbance in the continuity in the environments, further highlighting a sense of displacement.
Pakistani artist Ahsan Masood’s large scale paintings engage his internal struggle with his displaced sense of sexual identity and the questions that arise from society’s insensitivity towards that identity. He aims to illustrate the contrast between the contexts of that very sexuality, where it comes from and where it is now.
Angela Ramirez, a documentary filmmaker from Colombia, presents a video installation inspired by the I Ching, the coming end of the Mayan 5th solar era and Hinduism’s conceptions of the cycle of birth and death, that honours the idea that an individual’s life itself progresses in cyclic phases, the current cycle always building upon the previous.
Meghna Singh, from India, explores the concept of material that colonizes people while going unquestioned, in a video installation titled, Served on an overlay of Broekie lace. Inspired by the prevalence of Broekie lace, a decorative feature in many South African homes that is meant to be beautiful and feminine, yet is a European product that has not had any fusion with local textiles. The video component comprises of a short surreal film that looks at the notion of guilt amongst people from an outsiderʼs perspective.
See Re:place Visiting Artists' Exhibition 21 July here
