faggot 2013

Ruann Coleman's and my work is catching quite some attention, this is great

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faggot
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:

http://goo.gl/1VzBya