Er staat niet wat er staat, the Dutch poet, Martinus Nijhoff’s said. Could one translate literally, The words written on paper, is not its meaning? Or Nothing is what it seems to be’. And, what about include too: the tools you use is not the artwork? What
The concept that nature and us are one is not a unique one. Even though many still believe in the dualism inherent in the biblical concept of Man reigning over nature. But lets drop that argument. How the One-ness of Us and Nature (elements, animals, plants,
The paradoxical conditions – dystopia and utopia - Bettie Coetzee Lambrecht evokes through the title of this exhibition and the two series of photographs of the natural world have come into sharp focus during the Covid-19 pandemic
Only one thing would save me from insanity. Cutting twenty-one days into chewable bites might achieve just that. A new photo-project, new pictures to process on my computer could be the answer. My world was about to shrink to the size of my screen. Desperate
The concept, Fundamentalist Rationalism, linked to the paradoxes created by the Greek philosopher, Zeno of Elea (c 490 - 430 BCE), and applied to Aesop’s well known fable, the Hare and the Tortoise race, was provided by the Eclectica Contemporary gallery as a challenge for
In this new series, the art gallery, and specifically the Zeitz MOCAA (Museum of Art Africa) in Cape Town South Africa, becomes the focus in tandem with stark empty landscapes, eroded surfaces in nature and man-made structures. The passing of time as expressed in Mother earth’s
Initially intended as an exploration of states of mind and emotions through body movement, this body of work slowly morphed into a meditation on fragile life and relationships. Life becoming paradoxically more and more precious whilst crumbling away into broken shards and fragments. What once
How we meet, feel mutual attraction to a variety of different persons, that each has particular characteristics that resonate our own. As the relationship develops older ones drift to the background - not disappearing, but visible through transparent layers. Disagreements, conflicts, resolving of conflicts all