The exhibition is developed in partnership with the University of the Free State and is curated by Miné Kleynhans, in partnership with Modern Art Projects South Africa (MAPSA)
Works are inspired by the Great Karoo and created by artists from across South Africa and include international contributions.
LANDscape[s] is a selection of works from the MAPSA Collection of Contemporary Art in Richmond, Northern Cape, in the Karoo. The selected work contemplates a lineage of artistic thought intersecting with the landscape.
The exhibition imagines and echoes the transitory reflections that this space elicits: Ruminations on the passage of time, excavations into our past, the meaning and consequence of our present endeavours, and contemporary artefacts that will soon become relics to our future selves.
Simon Schama writes: “Landscape is a construct of memory, it is a work of the mind, built up as much from the strata of memory as from layers of rock.” *
MAPSA was founded in 2005 by Harrie Siertsema and Abrie Fourie.
* Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory (New York: AA Knopf, 1995), p. 7.
