Sue Clark
Statement
This art exhibition delves into the intricate beauty of the evolving and decaying landscape of South African cities. Over the past half-century, these urban environments have undergone significant transformations.
The exhibition captures this dynamic by layering memories embedded in public monuments and statues with contemporary imagery through experimental works in drawing, collage, stitching, animation, and augmented reality.
This exhibition seeks to strike a visual balance between growth and decay, memory and forgetting, and the interplay between the city’s past, present, and imagined future.
The analogy of cities as living entities is explored, contemplating their life cycles, and the impact of time on their architectural fabric. “Frayed Edges” invites viewers to contemplate the urban organism’s complex and rich narrative.
Making Art Immersive
For a moment, reimagine the concept of construction as an endeavour aimed at creating space. Space in this context referring to making room in both a physical and metaphorical sense. When we inhabit spaces, they have a profound impact on us.In this sense, this exhibition inhabits many different spaces, including the digital space and the sonic realm. The collaborative effort to create an immersive audio-visual experience is allows this exhibition to transcend it’s physical space.
Animation of many of the works have been experimented with using various techniques from more traditional stop animation to …… including AI assisted applications. The animations are
loose collaborations between Sue Clark and Ross Juterbock and investigate various interpretations of the static images. The artworks have been animated to stimulate the viewer and encourage engagement with the detail. As all the sound and
animation collaborators on this project have created new artworks in their own right, we hope the process continues and the animationsare catalysts to the viewers developing their own narratives around the images.
‘The birth of the reader (in this case viewer/animator) must be at the cost of the death of the Author (artist).’
- Roland Barthes
Sound Collaborations
Immerse yourself in this exhibition as our collaborative artists have each crafted a 7-10 minute soundtrack, releasing alongside the exhibition on March 9, 2024.
All collaborators are Alumni from the Open Window institute, with majors in Sound Design. With total creative freedom, each composition enhances the visual narrative of their assigned installation artwork, creating a multi-sensory experience for our audience.
Installation Artworks
Drawings
Animation
To view the animations attached to the artworks please do the following :
01. Install the free Artivive App. Available on
both Google Play and the app store.
02. Hold your smartphone in front of the image (artwork in gallery or image on website).
03. Fill screen with the image until the animation begins.
