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OVERALL WINNER
Winner
MINÉ
KLEYNHANS
BLOEMFONTEIN
Meditations on Resentment
imagines an intimate personal
ritual that sanctions the
experience and expression
of resentment. The work
contemplates resentment
as a pattern of thought and
emotion that excavates,
polishes, and sharpens.
This interactive work invites the viewer to engage in
a ritual with this secret and suppressed emotion by
imaginatively and temporarily lifting the constraints that
resentment is ordinarily dealt with. When encountering
the artwork, prospective participants are presented with
the shiny, indented surface of the work, a brush with a
sharpened end and a bowl of sand. The ritual that the
artwork imagines tasks the participant to kneel in front of
the work and pour the sand out onto the indented surface.
They are to write their resentments in the sand
with the sharpened end of the brush, then sweep
the sand away and out of the closest cavity until
the sharp, hard kernel of a brass thorn is revealed.
Participants will repeat this ritualistic activity
while meditating on the reasons for their irate
state as many times as their resentment requires,
starting at the top of the work and working the
sand downwards so that it can be collected in the
brass bowl again. In time the defacement caused
by the scratched words will create a stigmata-like
impression of partially revealed resentments.
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Biography
Miné Kleynhans is employed at the University
of the Fee State’s Art Gallery as the Project
Coordinator. As an artist, art project manager,
and facilitator, she has participated in various
experimental, developmental and large-scale
international creative projects. Most notably as
a lead artist in collaboration with Alex Rinsler
in the It's My City project (www.itsmycity.co.za)
during the Vrystaat Art Festival 2016. She
graduated with a Master in Fine Art (Cum Laude)
from the University of the Free State in 2017 and
was an artist in residence at Brashnar Creative
Project, Macedonia, Eastern Europe, in 2018.
She exhibits regularly and has received various
acknowledgements for her work.
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