Oblique
Hillcrest Swimming Pool, standard olympicpool, Hatfield, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 2007
Ivan Vladiclavic, ‘The Cold Storage Club’ in Abrie Fourie(Oblique(published by Revolver/ Rhodeworks, Berlin, 2011), p.13
Schloss Erkenbrechtshausen, Crailsheim, Germany, 2008
They wanted us to live in a monument. (Ivan Vladiclavic, Missing persons, David Philip Publishers (Pty) Ltd, 1989, p.3)
How soon people become bored with the making and unmaking of history, Grekov thought, remembering the hundreds of thousands who had taken to the streets to watch the first monuments fall. (Ivan Vladiclavic, Propaganda by Monuments & other stories, David Philip Publishers (Pty) Ltd, 1996, p.18)
Cinema Theatre, Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa, 1999
Detail, Voortrekker Monument, South Africa, 2001
Sabie River, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 1996
I was born and raised in Apartheid South Africa, and experienced the transition to a democratic society as a teenager and young adult, which made a lasting impression on myself, and directly on my practice as an artist. The rejection of old ideologies, adjustments to new political and cultural realities, as well as the intensity of dealing with a traumatic and violent past... et cetera.
In 2007 I immigrated to Germany with my family, and travel to South Africa two to three times a year. During this time, I have become increasingly interested in the similarities between these two places that have experienced major political and social changes during the same period, and the various manifestations of these ideological rifts in the urban and psychological fabric of the respective places, either as visible scars in the landscape or as invisible physiological traits.
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VIEW OF “GEISTERBAHNHOF”
U8 subway station, Bernauer Strasse, Berlin, 2013
public space intervention by NGBK
U8 Bernauer Strasse, Berlin, installation in context of “Kunst im Untergrund” (NGBK, Berlin), June–September, 2013
U8 Bernauer Strasse, Berlin, installation in context of “Kunst im Untergrund” (NGBK, Berlin), June–September, 2013
U8 Bernauer Strasse, Berlin, installation in context of “Kunst im Untergrund” (NGBK, Berlin), June–September, 2013
U8 Bernauer Strasse, Berlin, installation in context of “Kunst im Untergrund” (NGBK, Berlin), June–September, 2013
U8 Bernauer Strasse, Berlin, installation in context of “Kunst im Untergrund” (NGBK, Berlin), June–September, 2013
Text and pictures © by Abrie Fourie, Berlin, 2013
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