LIEN BOTHA `WONDERBOOM` FIRST EDITION

LIEN BOTHA "WONDERBOOM" FIRST EDITION, 2015

LIEN BOTHA ALSO FEATURED IN THE TAXI ART SERIES. SHE IS A FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER, INSTALLATION ARTIST AND AUTHOR.

Bothas Wonderboom series is a virtuosic distillation of these steadfast concerns. A visual companion piece to her debut novel of the same name, which tracks the protagonists journey across dystopic South Africa as she slowly loses her memory, each image corresponds to a chapter. A series of disintegrating photographic texts, Wonderboom references Eadweard James Muybridges groundbreaking image sequences. But while Muybridges sequences are accumulative and continuous, Bothas tracks a trajectory of loss and disintegration. Layers of meaning are progressively stripped away, severing connections and associations as they disappear. The collection of objects comes to represent a mind that is slowly losing its grip on itself, a place slowly eroded, a history forgotten or confused. This visual entropy effects a tactile sense of loss, and reminds us that lived experience is predicated on complex layers of association which are ever vulnerable to disruption, destruction and delirium. 

BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.