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THE WORK OF ANJA MARAIS ,
SHOWN AT THE
"3RD BIENNIAL ''ARTISTS OF ART SALON'' EXHIBITION" EXHIBITION
ANJA MARAIS HAS PRESENTED AT THE FOLLOWING ART SALON:
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CONTACT INFORMATION
ARTIST'S E-MAIL: art@anjamarais.com
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MEDIUMS EXPLORED:
Sculpture, mixed media, collage
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ARTISTS STATEMENT
This De-collage contains still images from the press documentation of the 1995 "Truth and Reconciliation" Committee in South Africa, combined with landscape photography. Six layers of paper images erode into each other, speaking of the disintegration of history, power structures and the entropic systems that holds them together.
Anja Marais works at the interstices where photography, sculpture and installation merge. "My sculptures and collages depend upon found materials: domestic objects, furniture, or demolition debris collected from depressed Miami neighborhoods. These objects come infused with a given history. I do not see them as a representation of ‘waste’ but of ‘possibilities’, where the discarded, the broken, the unwanted can metamorphosize and regain dignity. My collages continue the dialogue through found images. Collected from my own family albums, ‘Little Haiti’ dumpsters, internet searches, and recycled magazines, these layered images become visual sediment of past doctrines and the mundane. They characterize a combination of absence and presence, by creating a world of what we remember and what we do not even know that we forgot, a reminder of the end of our own memories and death. My interest in the innate resonance of inanimate objects comes from African animistic religions, especially oral delivered histories, like ethnopoetry and mythology."
Marais was born and raised in the countryside of South Africa. She apprenticed with a landscape painter for many years, and graduated from the University of South Africa with a BFA (Honours) in 1998. She was one of 10 winners of the 2019 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art at the Orlando Museum of Art, where a large installation of her works was shown. She was awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship 2014, and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship 2010. She has participated in many art residencies in Europe, Asia, and the USA, and has exhibited at museums and galleries in Texas, Philadelphia, St Petersburg, Russia, Mino, Japan; Miami, Naples, Florida; and is currently in an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. |
| ANJA MARAIS 'S ARTWORK |
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| Fragility And The Oath |
| Decollage and Found Object Assemblage. Paper, Ink, Charcoal, Fabric, Metal, Iron, Bone |
| 95" H x 132" W x 14" D |
| $9,000 |
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