ABSA L'ARTELIER: THE CONFESSIONAL
By Lehlohonolo Molo II
“Forgive me father for I have sinned.”
The Confessional is a group exhibition curated by Liberty Battison, the concept comes from Google’s most searched topics, from the results artists were asked to pick a particular topic which they can relate to.
‘Quitting smoking’ by Louis de Viller voiced most of my thoughts, ‘Kwanele’ did the same. I believe that the one thing that causes generational misdeeds and global-emotional turmoil is that we as beings fail to acknowledge dents in our own moral virtues and standards, thus causing decay deep within our mental as well as emotional well-being.
The task was to put their confession in an artistic representation, a public confession – one confiding in strangers with a topic that resonates deep within them (the public). Headphones hung close to the artwork so you could listen to that confession, and that’s what we as people sometimes need – to speak and someone else listens without commenting and or making judgements. This amplifies the explanation of art, an expression of things that we aren’t able to do in words – a language of the soul.
In the spirit of confession I have battled with quitting smoking for quite some time. Furthermore, I have been neglectful as well as an absent child to my parents and an absent sibling to my sisters – these are things that some artists struggle with, I wouldn’t be able to pin-point the exact cause of these things or even how to solve them. Time is the most valuable currency to me and probably the only valuable currency ever – I can only suggest that you pay a visit to the Absa Art Gallery and confess your sins through acknowledgement, admission and ultimately purchase.
Note: Limited Editions of recordings of the confessions are on sale at R200 each
Show ends TODAY (1 August)
“Forgive me father for I have sinned.”
The Confessional is a group exhibition curated by Liberty Battison, the concept comes from Google’s most searched topics, from the results artists were asked to pick a particular topic which they can relate to.
‘Quitting smoking’ by Louis de Viller voiced most of my thoughts, ‘Kwanele’ did the same. I believe that the one thing that causes generational misdeeds and global-emotional turmoil is that we as beings fail to acknowledge dents in our own moral virtues and standards, thus causing decay deep within our mental as well as emotional well-being.
The task was to put their confession in an artistic representation, a public confession – one confiding in strangers with a topic that resonates deep within them (the public). Headphones hung close to the artwork so you could listen to that confession, and that’s what we as people sometimes need – to speak and someone else listens without commenting and or making judgements. This amplifies the explanation of art, an expression of things that we aren’t able to do in words – a language of the soul.
In the spirit of confession I have battled with quitting smoking for quite some time. Furthermore, I have been neglectful as well as an absent child to my parents and an absent sibling to my sisters – these are things that some artists struggle with, I wouldn’t be able to pin-point the exact cause of these things or even how to solve them. Time is the most valuable currency to me and probably the only valuable currency ever – I can only suggest that you pay a visit to the Absa Art Gallery and confess your sins through acknowledgement, admission and ultimately purchase.
Note: Limited Editions of recordings of the confessions are on sale at R200 each
Show ends TODAY (1 August)
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