Lerato Shadi
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS
- Selogilwe (6 May - 4 June 2010)
- Fragile on Self/Not-self at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (26 March - 25 April 2009)
- Aboleleng & Hema at Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (Side Gallery, 20 September - 20 October 2007)
Life is an act of creation. Every moment
leaves behind a memory, traces or
something tangible or ethereal that refers to it or marks its passage.
Either for the self the other or the space within which the former two
exists, the life span - permanence or impermanence of what has been
created
is another matter.
My performances are a method of marking the passage through time and
making a mark on time itself. For time is the documentation or record
of our
planet's movement through the solar system. The interventions on time
are
done through the conscious use of time, body and mind.
Through the use of the body and the effects that the passage of time
has on
the body, the body becomes the clock. Where after a certain number of
hours
the strain of being active through a repeated gesture shows, or through
what
has been created within that specified period of time. It has been
documented that we can add years to our life span by living consciously
and healthily. Each performance, its effects and what is produced are a
way of
accelerating and exaggerating the effects of time.
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