Ruann Coleman's and my work is catching quite some attention, this is great
Check out the link:
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faggot
Lindi Venter in collaboration with Ruann Coleman
Dimensions variable
Lindi Venter in collaboration with Ruann Coleman
Dimensions variable
Port Jackson wood and rope
2013
The work’s title as well as its
location bears great significance. In both the title and material the work
merely presents, a bundle of sticks. This project’s aim is to visually present
how a word that once was assigned to something as simple as a bundle of sticks,
now refers to and forms part of hate speech against homosexuality.
The work’s location is of great
significance, which is a reaction the response of Dylan Lewis’s sculpture, Male-Trans Figure II. A response focused
on issues the sculpture suggests with little focus on the sculpture itself.
In both instances this work faggot is
a visual gesture to create awareness around the perception and misperception of
the impact of words and images that hinders and detracts from the hidden
subtleties of the everyday.
For info on the history of the origin
of the word faggot, visit:
