Notes

"Tree, Pretoria, South Africa, 2002 refers to a scene I encountered on Sunday morning. I had stopped my car to pick up some students for church. When I left, two guys were standing talking on the sidewalk next to my car, in which were waiting my son and a friend. When I returned a few minutes later, all that remained of their conversation was a splattering of blood and fallen Jacaranda blossoms on the pavement where they had been standing. The security guard on duty informed me that one of the two guys had wanted the jacket of the other (an off-duty security guard) and when he refused, he grabbed an empty beer bottle that was lying on the pavement, smashed it, stabbed him, took his jacket, and abandoned the scene.’’

 - Abrie Fourie

Provenance

Collection Oliewenhuis, National Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Exhibited

ENEMIES/ VYANDE, a two person exhibition with Santu Mofokeng, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, 2002.

The work also featured on a travelling solo exhibition Oblique, curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg at Gutstein Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, USA as well as at SMAC Art Gallery, Cape Town, 2013; at Gallery 1600, SCAD, Atlanta, USA 2014 and in 2016 at the Johannes Stegman Gallery, University of the Free State and at Fried Gallery, Pretoria.

It was also included in The Day will come when Photography revises, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge and Amelie Zadeh, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Germany in 2015 and VI X VI: Positions on the Future of Photography, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge and Amelie Zadeh, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria in 2016.

Literature

Gabriele Spindler (ed.) (2015) VI X VI: Positions on the Future of Photography, Vienna : Verlag fur Moderne Kunst.