MERIT AWARDSMerit award winnerHERMANPRETORIUSPRETORIAInstructuresArchival prints & computer installationInstallation: 240 cm x 175 cm x 250 cmMERIT AWARDSInstructures is a computer program that explores the endless and diverseoutcomes when a minimal and straightforward set of instructions are followed tobuild structures out of cubes. Each time the program executes, a random signatureis generated. The program accepts this signature as an input and outputs acorresponding artwork using a deterministic generative algorithm. The signature isdisplayed bottom left on each artwork, and a unique signature will always generatethe same output. Even though the program is focused on generating uniquestructures, the additional variations in scale, composition, colour, viewing angle anddrawing style create an even wider array of generative outcomes. Some outputsare recognisable as three-dimensional isometric drawings whilst others are moreabstract. The unique artworks are also meant to be used as points of departure forcreating new artworks using methods of drawing, painting, print making, sculpting,etc. The aim of Instructures is to strike a balance between traditional art and themore technical nature of computers and programming art by blending visual cuesfrom both disciplines. The artist hopes the works can be appreciated by audiencesfrom both of these worlds. Instructures can be viewed online at www.instructur.es#OverMyDeadBody 1Sunlight soap & Perspex160 cm x 80,5 cm x 8 cm1819#OverMyDeadBody 4Hospital gurney, embroideredshroud & speaker87 cm x 197 cm x 85 cmMerit award winnerANDREAWALTERSDURBANSASOL NEW SIGNATURES • 2022 CATALOGUEThe #OverMyDeadBody series interrogates the ongoing perception that it is acceptablefor a man to punish a woman through violence or death. This series draws attention tothe women who have died at their partners’ hands. The processes and media used tohonour South African femicide victims are influenced by the artist’s own experiencesof intimate partner violence. When a woman, as sufferer or survivor, sees art relatingto violence against other women, it provokes an instinctive response: she remembersbecause she cannot forget. Residual traumatic memory engenders empathy andgrievability for these absent yet present women. The artist gathered data and imagesof femicide victims through various online and offline media. Since green Sunlight soapbars are found in most South African households, the victims’ mouths were carved intothe soap. Fifty sculptured mouths are suspended at eye level on Perspex shelves. Thepassing of the artist’s mother inspired the death shroud embroidered with the victims’names in gold, which is complimented by a lone singer’s voice that mourns the dead.SASOL NEW SIGNATURES • 2022 CATALOGUE
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