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Thursday Talks: Landscapes and Translation with Joani Groenewald

Lectures  /  19 Mar 2020
Published: 02.03.2020
Ring: Skipping Stones by Joani Groenewald.Silver, plastic, sand, glass.. 1998.4 x 6.5 x 1.5 cm.Photo by: Hjalmar Bekker.From series: Dislocated Joani Groenewald
Ring: Skipping Stones, 1998
Silver, plastic, sand, glass.
4 x 6.5 x 1.5 cm
Photo by: Hjalmar Bekker
From series: Dislocated
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Intro
In my creative practice, I draw connections between landscapes, memory and language. My work aims to facilitate a critical representation of the South African landscape from a perspective that is sensitive towards the entangled nuances, histories and layers of meaning that are present in the landscape.
I view the landscape as a visual text that can be translated through various multimodal practices. Such forms of multimodality resonate strongly with my creative practice, insofar as I rely on images of a specific landscape and translate these images into jewellery and/or sculptural pieces. In this regard, I rely on the nature of the materials that I work with (such as mined minerals, stones, soil, glass and plastic) to question issues regarding landscape and culture specifically because of its origins, symbolic function and the political context that surrounds the extraction of natural recourses in previously colonised countries such as South Africa.
/ Joani Groenewald

Joani Groenewald works as a lecturer in the Visual Arts Department of Stellenbosch University. Currently, she is enrolled for a Bi-Lateral PhD in Visual Arts and Jewellery and Object Design at Stellenbosch University and Hasselt University/PXL-MAD, School of Arts, Hasselt.


When: 19th of March, Thursday, at 6.30 pm.
Location: Building G, Campus Elfde-Linie (Elfde-Liniestraat 25, Hasselt).
 
Earrings: Kissed on the Cheek by Joani Groenewald.Silver, resin, soil, synthetic coral.. 2006.Photo by: Hjalmar Bekker Joani Groenewald
Earrings: Kissed on the Cheek, 2006
Silver, resin, soil, synthetic coral.
Photo by: Hjalmar Bekker
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Necklace: Time Capsule by Joani Groenewald.Silver, resin, soil, glass, leather cord.. 2006.Photo by: Hjalmar Bekker Joani Groenewald
Necklace: Time Capsule, 2006
Silver, resin, soil, glass, leather cord.
Photo by: Hjalmar Bekker
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