Artwork

Let us live together in harmonic dissonance

2019 Competition entry

De(con)struction

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Lana Combrinck

Details:
Not Signed
Oil on lino
58 cm in diameter
R5 500

Description:
This multi-media artwork represents a distorted image of houses that fit into each other like a puzzle. An image that’s supposed to create a sense of comfort has discomforting effects. The artwork is round and can be seen from different angles creating the sense of constant change and movement. This sense of movement is also present in the spiral effect that the houses form. The houses are made out of lino. Some parts are built up out of the lino and others scratched away. This process is symbolic of building a safe space, but also of breaking it down through violent acts. There is this constant movement between comfort and discomfort, order and chaos, peace and violence. This is symbolic of our current South African situation in which we all strive for a beautiful, safe place to call home, but our homes are being taken and destroyed through violent acts by others that also want a place to call home. And so our perfect image of what home looks like becomes distorted and everything quickly spirals out of control. Harmony becomes dissonance.

Acrylic Oil Digital print Lino Pastel