David Hlynsky (Canada)
Artists
- Wim Botha
- Bob Cnoops
- Hugo Crosthwaite (Mexico)
- James de Villiers
- Sasha Fabris
- Gordon Froud
- Rookeya Gardee
- David Hlynsky (Canada)
- Ashley Johnson
- Nkosinathi Khanyile
- Ania Krajewski
- Michael Matthews
- Nhlanhla Mbatha
- Rankadi Mosako
- Margi Scharff (USA)
- Diane Victor
DASART shows
Transmigrations - the show
Fokofo
Dasart Archives
When I visited South Africa I came with certain preconceptions about the political and social conditions there. Upon arriving, I discovered a situation much more complex than I imagined.
We talked about the atmosphere of violence and frustration. I also began to feel the incredible beauty of the land.
Conflict seemed to be everywhere...
between blacks and whites...
between classes and languages and cultures...
between Nature and Culture...
between the past and the present...
between the present and the future.
Upon leaving I felt that I had come to know less about South Africa the more I learned. This difficult boundary between hope and ignorance seems to be at the root of my artistic investigations.
And so my images express my own fixation on a certain state of confusion I felt in South Africa. I interpret "transmigration" as a particularly difficult state of consciousness (perhaps a limbo) between the security of understanding and the danger of misunderstanding....
David Hlynsky