September 01, 2021 - September 30, 2021
Blueprint for A
Breathless World
This series developed
out of an Artist’s book, Blueprint for the DisOrder of Things made
during the first hard lockdown in South Africa in 2020.
In the pages from The
Order of Things by Michel Foucault that form the centre panels there are
three characters that interact and infect one another, the ‘princess’, from the
painting Las Meninas by Velasquez, a Plague doctor and a dog that bears
witness to the narrative unfolding before him. The landscape in which this
takes place depict mountain ranges that map the rise and fall of the pandemic. From
above, the ‘hand of god’ sprays down infectious droplets, the very air is toxic.
In the night sky above float spacecrafts and astronauts, attached to the astronauts are the tubes and oxygen tanks needed for breathing, down below swim the salmon, only they can breathe in both fresh and salt water
