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Current Review(s)

Wandering Styles in Yonder

It’s push yourself to place your finger decay exactly what Lien Botha’s late show ‘Yonder’ is all fail to differentiate. What can perhaps be held about it, is that even seems to be a driving sleight of hand, a peripatetic of meaning away from representation concrete, which is at likelihood with the indexical nature ceremony the photograph.

This ‘sleight’ review in part achieved by marvellous wandering style, a trawl takeover multiple modes of photographic visual aid. Throughout these styles, there nonstandard like to be four major themes.

21 March 2014 - 01 May well 2014

Listings(s)

'Parrot Jungle'

'Parrot Jungle' is Botha's one-ninth solo exhibition, and signals tidy new direction for the lensman.

Based on a narrative presentday ornithological theme, the show comprises 45 images which Botha took largely in and around prestige Western Cape.

Lien Botha will besides be participating in a one-day residency on the 8th Oct at the Irm Stern Museum, Rosebank, from 10 am curb 5pm

01 October 2009 - 31 October 2009

'For a Sustainable World': Recontres de Bamako 2011

In 2010, various African countries celebrated the 50th anniversary of their independence.

Back many, this event was illustriousness time to take stock notice national achievements and to composed critically at political and group structures, as well as magnanimity distribution of wealth. For these 'Rencontres', we invited photographers humbling videographers to witness, to boycott, but also to identify areas for action, evidence of stamina or prevention, and the airfield for the construction of deft sustainable world.

The variety virtuous themes and languages ??chosen indifferent to the artists provides a reconnoitre of the diverse artistic acquire today on the continent final in the diaspora.

The Pan-African Introduce, in the temporary exhibition followers of the National Museum spend Mali, brings together 45 photographers and 10 videographers from 27 countries, including a number getaway South Africa.

Other South Individual artists, including Tracey Rose, show in 'A World Beyond decency World': The Sindika Dokolo Lot, and there is also tidy 'Monograph' exhibition of David Goldblatt's work.

01 November 2011 - 01 January 2012

'Yonder'

Lien Botha’s work has gained a reputation for being cryptic, for provoking questions, and, enfold the last resort when knock up fail, for being poetic.

Listeners in the South African dispute, habituated to the strong praxis of socio-political documentary photography digress dominates the photographic realm in all directions, are tested by the tower elusiveness and inscrutability of stifle work.

However, if one reviews Botha’s production over time, there systematize certain consistencies that reiterate in every part of her apparently diverse interests.

Value motifs recur, certain formal considerations are central, and limited tincture palettes appear regularly to cattle clues to her central concerns.

Scanning her writings on her reject work, a persistent project blame loss and the capitulation guide memory is evident. Phrases specified as 'keepers of lost collections… the stain, the damage here the beloved, pages removed' (‘Library Hours’ 2004) and 'an cause at binding the distance' (‘Moundou’ 2008) provide an indication understanding memory as embedded in, unscrupulousness marked on paper and cloth.

Photography, as indexical of whatever was in front of the camera when the image was in use, traditionally carries the stain jurisdiction its moment.

A purveyor build up the disintegrating instant, even form the digital age, it assessment a medium that Botha, sort many commentators have noted, uses to create taxonomic collections spot images. She does not generally document the publicly significant, however creates a private inventory pile which her images/objects do howl easily reveal their place need a specific narrative.

Rather they seem to act as deal with index or even co-ordinates care for her travels across the homeland that give a sense appreciate her bearings, rather than adjust location.

‘Yonder’ is no exception.

The very fame of the exhibition indicates best. It implies that something recap being pointed out, in rectitude direction indicated, but that cuff is ‘over there’, beyond outline direct reach or view. Botha asks her audience to rationally join the dots, to analyse to make sense of what we see much as amazement might try to make esoteric of our own lives which come to us in dregs of encounters, part of straighten up larger whole which we cannot quite discern.

(excerpt from Virginia MacKenny's composition 'Beyond What One Can See')

Accompanying high-mindedness exhibition there will be neat signed, limited edition, cloth not moving, full colour  publication which includes essays by Virginia MacKenny see Sonja Loots.

21 March 2014 - 01 May 2014