Notes

Dan Halter was born in Zimbabwe and studied Fine Art at Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town, completing his BAFA in 2001. He has had several local solo shows, overseas and local residencies, and has exhibited internationally.

This work is one in which re-purposing of his material is both physical and conceptual. It plays with the relationships between the ‘text’ and a textile. A passage of text purportedly written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the mysterious and possibly fictitious character in George Orwell’s novel 1984 has been re-purposed as the pattern printed on a page. Cut into strips, the page is re-constructed by weaving the strips into a textile, the edges of which are left visible. The reconstituted textile is then replicated in numbered prints, this one being number 5. It is neither the real text, nor the woven replica, but a simulacrum of both. It is also both witty and visually engaging.

Provenance

Donated by the artist