Time is a Flat Circle

Exposición / Movart - Lisboa / Rua João Penha RC N14 / Lisboa, Portugal
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Cuándo:
15 sep de 2022 - 13 nov de 2022

Inauguración:
15 sep de 2022

Comisariada por:
Camila Maissune

Organizada por:
Movart

Artistas participantes:
David Brits

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Time is a Flat Circle by South African artist David Brits (b. 1987) comprises a set of photographic works completed between 2010–2012 as well as a series of new carbon fibre sculptures. The exhibition commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, a large-scale mechanised tank battle that took place in southern Angola between Angolan, Cuban and South African forces during the years 1987–1988. Based in an archive of pictures posted on social media groups by South African ex-conscripts, many of whom fought in South Africa’s so-called “Border War” in Namibia and southern Angola from the 1960ies to the 1980ies, David Brits uses mark-making, erasure and scratching, thus embodying the complexities of working through his own masculinity and inherited history in post-Apartheid South Africa. Brits’ sculptural works take as their principal archetype the “Ouroboros”, a Greek-derived word describing the symbol of a snake devouring its own tail. The artist brings forth an image whose logic refutes itself, and which somehow suspends time.

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