Artist: Bridget Baker
Curator: Storm Janse van Rensburg
Essays by: Clifton Crais, Storm Janse van Rensburg, Linda Stupart, Andrew van der Vlies
Gallery: National Arts Festival, Gallery in the Round, 1820 Monument, Grahamstown
Dates: 3 July 2013 – 13 July 2013
Website: (review) https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-sunday-independent/20140713/281698317858625
Pages: 23
Bridget Baker’s work is situated at the intersection of documentary and myth making, forming a series of complex visual fragments realized through film making, installation and documented restagings. The artist interweaves personal histories and narratives with larger historic moments, with an interest in the blind-spots created by official narrations of the past. Her practice is infused with humour, labour and frailty. For the exhibition a large artefact is freighted by ship from London to the Port Elizabeth harbour. Its arrival mimics its original function, that of human transporter or lift, landing passengers between settler ships and smaller boats out at sea before the development of harbours on the coast of the Indian Ocean.
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