Homeland
June 3rd – June 18th 2004
Opened: Thursday June 3rd 2004 at 1pm
FCA Gallery
Masters of Creative Arts Final Exhibition by Carolina Garnica Eljaiek and Nicole Sickle
A fascinating series of paintings on themes of identity and subjectivity based in South Africa and Colombia. Collectively, the exhibition is known as "Homeland".
"In this exhibition (The End of the Beginning), I explore my responses to the effects of the horrors of the apartheid system in South Africa (1940 - 1994), my birth country. Use of the imagery, such as domestic environment and barren landscape, for me, acts as a mnemonic device, activating the memory of the past."
- Nicole Sickle (supervised by Richard Hook)
"My history and Colombia’s history -my home country- are related with my work. I am creating my mental map, trying to define that place that is now so far away; in order to tell the story that I know. I am not looking for national symbols; I am constructing an unofficial and personal imagery through drawing by erasing a surface previously painted with black ink. To create these images I simply use black ink on aluminium. The black images on the metal plate give uniformity to the diverse kaleidoscopic images in my mind. "
- Carolina Garnica Eljaiek (supervised by Jelle van den Berg/Jacky Redgate).
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