Visual art: Blown @ Blank Projects

by | Apr 26, 2013 | News | 0 comments

Invoking critical questions about violence, femininity and desire, as well as the mass cultural corporatisation of the female body, Belinda Blignaut’s new exhibition Blown is a collage made from shrapnel, snapshots and fractured memories in a range of media.

The works inhabit the jagged terrain where the human body becomes a canvas for scenes full of perversity and complexity, beauty and brutality. As the artist explains in her provocative text work Why I Make: “BecauseICantTurnBackBecauseIUsedBloodSweatAndTearsBecauseOfTheTearsBecauseOfTheBloodBecauseImTiredOfWaiting…Venue:

Venue:

Blank Projects, 113-115 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town.

Price:

Free.

Date & Time:

Until May 11.

Contact Details:

Call 072 198 9221 or visit .

via Mail & Guardian

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