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2017 Competition entry

Lyrene Kühn-Botma

Details:
Signed
Pigment ink and pen on paper
110 cm x 79 cm

Description:

Grief today has changed from the focus being on the corpse to being on the traces left behind by the living body in multiple forms. We mourn through mediated experiences today - a person is remembered not necessarily by the physical mementos left behind, but by their virtual presence on Facebook, videos on computers and voice notes on phones. The various devices we hold in our hands today have become mechanical houses for the dead, a grave that fits in our pockets. My question is if grieving practices of today have become too removed from the body and/or too attached to the "cloud" and mechanical devises.

Shortcut amplifies this question with empty hands being intertwined in a wreath made of succulence. On the top left a Photoshop toolbar has been drawn for individual shortcuts added. The toolbar is drawn out to present the viewer with the impossibility of being able to use the shortcuts.