Whatiftheworld / gallery

31 Jan - 17 Feb 2007

OPENING: 18h30 WEDNESDAY 31 January 2007

Whatiftheworld / Artspace at The Old Biscuit Mill 373 Albert Rd. Woodstock

*(particularly recommended for those afraid of high cliffs, robberies and tropical diseases)

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Artists Statement:

There is a direct correlation between travelling across a landscape and the path of a graphic mark which transforms a blank page into an imaginary space. Marna Hattingh and Jeanne Hoffman will show a collection of two- and three-dimensional drawings. The drawings explore the physical and psychological aspects of journey.

For both artists drawing is more than a line based composition. It is an attitude to making artworks that combines both physical gesture and a very direct way of visualising one’s thoughts. The narratives are immediate and personal – they are travels without leaving the room: journeys of the imagination through contemporary myths.

The subjective drawing processes associate with real and imagined journeys across landscapes of physical places and metaphorical spaces. Travel reactivates us to that which we are so accustomed to at home: Returning from elsewhere, our normal boring surroundings are suddenly interesting again, that is, until we become used to it again. The drawings (on paper or as objects) create imaginary spaces where the viewer may rediscover everything that is so normal and banal in day-to-day life.

Jeanne Hoffman’s drawings record the wandering activities of the hand. She appropriates everyday objects, change them, cut them into narrative threads (literally) I and metaphorically, and rejoin them in new narrative threads - that is, narrative without story telling.

Marna Hattingh’s characters enact everyday gestures in a play of daydreams and flights of fantasy that form a series of narrative constellations.