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BURDEN
2015
BRONZE ON STEEL BASE
EDITION OF 12
1070 X 400 X 600 MM
EUR 17.950,–
This sculptural piece speaks to
the journey of an aggregated
life: the body as vessel shaped
and burdened by a colonial
past (referring to an infliction of
hardship and distress, the guilt of
privilege, the shipwrecked hopes
of the artist as a contemporary
white South African male).
The green patinated bronze
bust leans forward to support
a wooden mass on his left
shoulder: a piercing cross, a
broken mast; remnants of a lived
and inherited past. DH Lawrence’s
Tortoise Shout comes to mind:
“Why were we crucified into sex?
Why were we not left rounded
off, and finished in ourselves, /
As we began, / As he certainly
began, so perfectly alone?”
As a stoic the figure supports,
is and becomes the weight of
Burden itself.
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