PRESS RELEASE
LIZA GROBLER | VOICES FROM DEELFONTEIN
Jun 19 – Jul 5, 2021
LIZA GROBLER
Voices from Deelfontein
19 June 2021 | 11h00 | 20 Huguenot Road, Franschhoek
What have we lost in the last fifteen months?
What have we gained?
The exhibition topography unfolds around a short film (10’24’’) titled Voices from a Divided Fountain.
The film premiered in Belgrade in November 2019 and was subsequently shown as an immersive installation in an abandoned building in Woodstock (August 2020) during the height of the pandemic. It speaks of the relativity of time, loss and the landscape as tacit witness to many epochs.
Voices from Deelfontein, is a selection of works that developed out of this film. It is set in a specific geographical location (Deelfontein) in the Groot Karoo. All that is left is the crumbling arch of a once majestic hotel, a dilapidated kraal and a few graves in a landscape as old as time. The Landscape is the main character, yet traces of human activities are audible in the afternoon breeze. The viewer can step into the space, explore the clues in the landscape and travel inwards.
The beaded works were made in collaboration with Qaqambile Bead Studio in Cape Town and the embroideries (through a set of complicated gestures) in association with a small embroidery studio in Delhi, India.* The Q&A painting concludes the show and is a gestural landscape that
seems familiar, but is non-specific and open to interpretation.
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*Die Alibama, one of the embroidered songs, refers to the ship that originally brought textiles from India to Cape Town, however these specific textile were flown.
-LIZA GROBLER
Exhibition concludes 5th July 2021
For more information please contact:
tayla@everard.co.za
lulu@everard.co.za
Everard Read Franschhoek
20 Huguenot Road
T: 021 867 2446
www.everard-read-franschhoek.co.za
fgallery@everard.co.za
