Limited Edition – Stephane Conradie, ‘Versameling/Collection’

Stephane Edith Conradie (b. 1990) is an artist and academic whose work explores a lifelong fascination with material culture in the home; the value ascribed to particular display objects and their role in identity formation and encoded situational and communal meaning. Focusing on coloured neighbourhoods, she investigates the creolised identities resulting from South Africa’s histories of colonialism, slavery, segregation and apartheid. The artist posits that the considered arrangements of exhibited items are more than merely aesthetic or commonplace – the domestic displays functioning as repositories of ‘nostalgic and ordentlike (respectable) sentiments of belonging’ – an act of agency within a historical context of displacement and forced removals. She appropriates these items in an intriguing and distinct visual language within her printmaking and bricolage artworks.

Conradie appropriates interior display objects in an intriguing and distinct visual language within her printmaking and bricolage artworks. In arrangements like ‘Versameling’, the artist posits that the considered display of such objects is more than merely aesthetic or commonplace. The domestic displays functioning as repositories of ‘nostalgic and ordentlike (respectable) sentiments of belonging’ – an act of agency within a historical context of displacement and forced removals.

Stephane Conradie, ‘Versameling/Collection’, 2018, hand-pulled screen print on BFK Rives 250gsm, 76x56cm, Edition of 50 plus 2 APs.

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This work is couriered rolled in a protective tube or flat on a protective backing board. Frame with non-acidic archival materials.