Parrot Jungle

 Confronted with what at first glance is a loose, fragmented narrative of sorts, one wonders three things about Parrot Jungle: why are these people, places and objects significant to the artist? What conceptual and aesthetic decisions has Botha made in order to come to the point of making and organising these images? And what, in the history of the medium with which she uncompromisingly throws in her lot here-without,

that is, the insertion or addition of other materials or other kinds of non-photographic images-has opened a space for this body of work in its particular form?

ordinary nostalgia personal history fragmentation unnoticed

Artist: Lien Botha

Essay by: Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

Gallery: The Photographers Gallery ZA, Cape Town

Dates: 30 September 2009 – 31 October 2009

Website (review): http://www.lienbotha.co.za/Parrot_Jungle_review_b_%20Miles_Keylock.jpg

Pages: 33

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