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MERIT AWARDS
Merit award winner
HERMAN
PRETORIUS
PRETORIA
Instructures
Archival prints & computer installation
Installation: 240 cm x 175 cm x 250 cm
MERIT AWARDS
Instructures is a computer program that explores the endless and diverse
outcomes when a minimal and straightforward set of instructions are followed to
build structures out of cubes. Each time the program executes, a random signature
is generated. The program accepts this signature as an input and outputs a
corresponding artwork using a deterministic generative algorithm. The signature is
displayed bottom left on each artwork, and a unique signature will always generate
the same output. Even though the program is focused on generating unique
structures, the additional variations in scale, composition, colour, viewing angle and
drawing style create an even wider array of generative outcomes. Some outputs
are recognisable as three-dimensional isometric drawings whilst others are more
abstract. The unique artworks are also meant to be used as points of departure for
creating new artworks using methods of drawing, painting, print making, sculpting,
etc. The aim of Instructures is to strike a balance between traditional art and the
more technical nature of computers and programming art by blending visual cues
from both disciplines. The artist hopes the works can be appreciated by audiences
from both of these worlds. Instructures can be viewed online at www.instructur.es
#OverMyDeadBody 1
Sunlight soap & Perspex
160 cm x 80,5 cm x 8 cm
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#OverMyDeadBody 4
Hospital gurney, embroidered
shroud & speaker
87 cm x 197 cm x 85 cm
Merit award winner
ANDREA
WALTERS
DURBAN
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The #OverMyDeadBody series interrogates the ongoing perception that it is acceptable
for a man to punish a woman through violence or death. This series draws attention to
the women who have died at their partners’ hands. The processes and media used to
honour South African femicide victims are influenced by the artist’s own experiences
of intimate partner violence. When a woman, as sufferer or survivor, sees art relating
to violence against other women, it provokes an instinctive response: she remembers
because she cannot forget. Residual traumatic memory engenders empathy and
grievability for these absent yet present women. The artist gathered data and images
of femicide victims through various online and offline media. Since green Sunlight soap
bars are found in most South African households, the victims’ mouths were carved into
the soap. Fifty sculptured mouths are suspended at eye level on Perspex shelves. The
passing 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.
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