Latest Acquisitions
Selected acquisitions of works and installations
Narshi Family Collection
The Santiago Cross
The Santiago Cross: Invisible Trade, recontexualises images drawn from the stop-frame animation component of the To be King installation through the lens of 'trade'. “Invisible trade, in economics, the exchange of physically intangible items between countries. Invisible trade can be distinguished from visible trade, which involves the export, import, and re-export of physically tangible goods.” https://www.britannica.com/topic/invisible-trade
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The Wits Art Museum
Digital print onto brushed metal with lazer cutouts 560 x 1 200mm, Edition 5 The collision and collusion of the two ‘languages’ of ‘art’ and ‘science’ are brought together in Below the Sediments to reveal their different epistemological strategies. The first register is a depiction of a karoo landscape in which over two thirds of the image depicts the earth below. The second register is from the realm of science and engineering. Diagrammatic images of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing create the hard edge ‘pipes’. The karoo soil depicted on the front panels has literally been cut away to create the scientifically ordered, ‘pipes’ laid below the ground to extract gas from below the surface of the earth. Collection: Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg
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1. The New York Public Library
The Binding Special Edition Book
Collections: The New York Public Library, New York The Jack Ginsberg Book Collection,Wits Art Museum This limited-edition artist’s book is visually and conceptually linked to Christine Dixie’s installation,The Binding. Working collaboratively with bookbinder Hélene van Aswegen, Dixie brought the deluxe edition into being as a project in its own right. The different surfaces of the book – leather, mohair, embossment, paper, string – were carefully considered and constitute a conceptual point of departure for the book.
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Sedimented Significations: Framing To be King
Abstract: In this paper, I consider three instances/examples of a dialectic relationship between an image and a philosophical text. All three instances ...
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The Binding/Special Edition Book/video
The Binding Special Edition Book
This video shows footage of The Special Edition Book and includes excerpts from The Binding installation which was the first iteration from The ...
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