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
