August 22, 2024 - August 22, 2024
Gallery of the SARChi Chair of South African Art and Visual Culture, Johannesburg
During the most stringent period of the lockdown in 2020, DisOrder-Trade-Off was produced, the first in a series of works engaging with the impact of Covid-19. The work comprising nine prints, alludes to a media discourse about a necessary "trade-off" between, on the one hand, damage to the economy that would result from a lockdown and, on the other, dangers posed by the spread of infection if people were not kept apart from one another. However, "trade-off" also alludes to a complex relation of language to image.
Trade-Off also alludes to a complex relation of language to image. The conceptual idea is developed further through the showing of DisOrder -Trade-Off alongside Extract, a work which is constituted from a written text in which Brenda Schmahmann engaged with the DisOrder -Trade-Off and its meanings.
