10 february
- 3 march 2007
Opening: Saturday 10 Fabruary 2007, 5-7pm
> PLUME
by Roger Palmer
A group of black and white photographs made in the Western Cape present
insignificant events such as smoke from a roadside fire, a dust cloud
generated by a moving vehicle, or a group of inquisitive ostriches.
Temporary wall-drawings, based on engraved portraits of former prime ministers, Botha, Herzog, Malan and Smuts, have been made by throwing pigment at the walls of the gallery. Accumulations of powder remain on the floor beneath the drawings.
Plume aims to explore ways in which to re-present to a South African audience images that have been erased from the nation’s collective consciousness. Palmer’s interest in working with these portraits lies in their fading currency as a part of South African history. Viewers are invited to consider these fragile drawings in relation to the insignificant events represented in the adjacent photographs.
This will be UK-based artist, Roger Palmer’s second solo exhibition in Johannesburg. Buttock & Tongue was at the Rembrandt van Rijn, Market Theatre Gallery in 1997.
Image: Roger Palmer '1910-1954' installation: 'Plume', Michaelis School
of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, 2006.