COVID-19 The Gift of Walls - Dys-U-Topia Bettie Coetzee lambrecht

Covid-19 Gift of Walls Dys-U-Topia explores the paradoxical simultaneous experience of good and bad.

The book represents a photographic art gallery divided into four theme-focused rooms with mysterious yet soulful compositions relating to both Dystopia and Utopia, that represent a mixture of vulnerability, beauty and horror, hence Dys-U-Topia.

Bette Coetzee Lambrecht has created a book/gallery where images can be explored at a deep visceral level. By including verbal and visual reactions to her work from 29 friends, artists, and poets who inject additional layers of meaning, she enriches the viewers experience.

The book is a source of inspiration that demonstrates how different creative styles and techniques can be used to create a masterpiece, even in Covid caged circumstances.

The book explores the simultaneous experience of the paradox of good and bad: The overlapping of seemingly contradictory and contrasting emotions including ecstasy/anguish, human/humanoid, plant/human/animal, creation/destruction, here/there, now/then. See for example the Cover Photo featuring the overlaying of a tango-dancing couple in the streets of Buenos Aires with the demolition and final implosion of a building in Cape Town.

2020, A4 Softcover, Good condition. Cover has some handling marks.