Sue Pam-Grant | Fugitive Lines
10 Mar 2011 - 08 May 2011
Pam-Grant lives and works in Johannesburg and draws inspiration from this vibrant and complex city. Despite an authentic interpretation of, and connection to, the social reality of life on the streets of Joburg; Pam-Grant’s personal reflections transcend her present locality in a language that is both universal and timeless.
Originally an actor, writer and director, Pam-Grant has gradually moved into visual arts with remarkable and surprising effect. Pam-Grant’s work is fresh and uninhibited, shifting effortlessly between artistic disciplines; performance, video, installation, assemblage, collage, painting, print-making, drawing, sculpture and street art. Free from the self-imposed constraints of overly-intellectual art practice, Pam-Grant’s work resonates with a wide (particularly young) audience starved of an honest, accessible language in the remote and elitist contemporary art scene.
Fugitive Lines is the culmination of a process. The artist momentarily fuses and assembles threads, fragments and faded memories for the viewer in a body of parallel, seemingly incongruent works that are challenging, disquietingly familiar and ultimately - strangely comforting.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with text by Rory Bester.
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