Bogana, who in the past produced several artworks with plastic plants, will create an ephemeral vivarium for living Opuntia cacti - a suggestive biosphere of sorts in which spaces are inclosed in spaces ad infinitum: to preserve life, as well as to preserve images of the future. The plants will become guinea-pigs for the artist's own projections.
By leaving space for the unpredictable to occur, the works aim to create collisions between static and dynamic images and ideas, as well as to interrogate enclosed living systems.
This installation is a continuation of Bogana's artistic reflection on the persistence of utopian dreaming and on thee unavoidable collision with the dynamism of complex systems.
Alan Bogana. Photo taken at the Vredefort impact structure
Jonah
Sack. b. 1978, Johannesburg. MFA Glasgow School of Art. Currently based
in Woodstock, works as a full-time artist and was the 2009 fellow of
the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts.
Francis Burger. b. 1986 in Tshwane. MFA, University of Cape Town. Currently functioning as a researcher, artist, writer and part-time lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. Based in Woodstock.
Francis Burger. b. 1986 in Tshwane. MFA, University of Cape Town. Currently functioning as a researcher, artist, writer and part-time lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. Based in Woodstock.
