GWEN VAN EMBDEN
The small selection of works for this exhibition (part of a larger body of work) reflects the uncertainty and chaos engulfing South Africa and the world. This is not only visual but psychical, because the forms that should lead viewers of the works to unpack meaning are no longer present. This does not render the abstract works meaningless; another bleaker truth begins to assert itself — the landscape and the old order, schemes of understanding and deciphering reality and the world have been obliterated but a new order is suggested, one with new shapes and forms and attendance to care.
