untitled (monument)

Fri 20th - Sun 22th February 09 | 10am - 6pm
Main Square
re-used materials
My practice enquires into the nature of humanity and the possibility of its equality, violence and discrimination, destruction and ruin; also the potentiality of objectivity and possibility of transcendence beyond aesthetic understanding. Through varied methods of manipulating materials, I aim to understand how I impose and expose conditions that exemplify the complex engagement between form and its destruction, as well as its rebirth. Essentially, in this process of transforming the materiality of tangible substances, I aim to unearth their rudimentary or essential parts.
Rohan Schwartz
My work has had a very strong practical and material emphasis. Methodologically, I see that there is a profound importance in subjecting conception to the conditions of materialization. I am interested in tangible and malleable materials, especially those with fragile and sensitive characteristics, such as paper, oil and wood. I am interested in observing the growth that occurs in amongst destruction. Earth has been disfigured by human presence. This emphasises the cyclical nature of living organisms, exposing the birth and death of both sentient and non-sentient life. Observing the ephemeral quality of the physical world. Everything is in flux; nothing is unchanging.
printer friendly version
Home