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Mimesis 2024

In her solo exhibition “Mimesis” artist Moran Kliger presents large scale, labor-intensive pencil on paper figurative drawings. 

The primate drawings appear as images uprooted from their natural surroundings. This lack of environment generates a reversal of the social-cultural order by depreciating or shifting attention from the “high” to the “low, from the spiritual to the secular, from the cultural to the savage. At the same time, the ancient landscape drawings depict a world that is sort of everywhere and nowhere. This view of ancient, craggy cliffs and rocks overshadowing streams of water serves to relate the image to the myth of Creation, while raising evolutionary associations that contradict this same myth.

 

The transitions between the “human-ape” installation and the apocalyptic landscape paintings present the cultural process of observing nature, being a part of it, falling in love with it and its destruction, the sense of impending disaster versus the potential of life, the question of controlling and being under control.

The exhibition is on display at The South African Jewish Museum , Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by museum director Gavin Morris.

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Installation view

The South African Jewish Museum

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Installation view

The South African Jewish Museum

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Installation view

The South African Jewish Museum

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