11th Sep, 2024 19:00
20th Century & Contemporary Art
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Lionel Smit (South Africa 1982-)
Small Malay Girl with Holes
resin, fibreglass and hand finished automotive paint on steel base
Artwork date: 2010
Signature details: signed, dated and numbered AP 1 along the neckline
Exhibited: Examples from the edition were exhibited in:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA, ‘Obscura’, 8 March to 6 May 2019.
Everard Read, Johannesburg, 'Lionel Smit: Accumulation', 4 July to 27 July 2013.
University of Stellenbosch Gallery, Stellenbosch, 'Lionel Smit: Accumulation of Disorder’, 2012.
Condition Report
The overall condition is good.
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resin, fibreglass and hand finished automotive paint on steel base
Artwork date: 2010
Signature details: signed, dated and numbered AP 1 along the neckline
Exhibited: Examples from the edition were exhibited in:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA, ‘Obscura’, 8 March to 6 May 2019.
Everard Read, Johannesburg, 'Lionel Smit: Accumulation', 4 July to 27 July 2013.
University of Stellenbosch Gallery, Stellenbosch, 'Lionel Smit: Accumulation of Disorder’, 2012.
(1)
116 x 34 x 53 cm including base
Provenance:
Private collection, Johannesburg.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The Small Malay Girl with Holes edition was initially part of an installation called Accumulation of Disorder, which was first exhibited at The University of Stellenbosch Gallery in 2012, and then at Lionel Smit’s first solo exhibition with Everard Read in 2013 titled Accumulation. The installation later travelled to the USA, where it was exhibited at the Miami Art Fair and was also included in the artist’s solo exhibition, Obscura at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Miami in 2018.
The installation was a powerful visual exploration of identity and multiculturalism, focusing on the Cape Malay community of Cape Town. It featured multiple sculpted heads, each with distinct colours, textures, and expressions, symbolising the diverse and dynamic nature of individual identities within a collective cultural framework. The arrangement of the heads in a group highlighted the tension between individual uniqueness and shared heritage, inviting viewers to contemplate how identity is both personal and communal, fluid and fixed.
OBSCURA exhibition installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, 8 March to 6 May 2019.
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