Notes

Bronwyn Lace completed a BAFA at Wits in 2004 and was listed in the Mail and Guardian as one of the top 200 Young South Africans in both 2009 and 2010. She is an installation and performance artist and is concerned with the relationships between art and practices such as physics, museology, mathematics and belief. Collapse (Infinitas) was initially shown in its sculptural light-box state in 2013 on Resuscitate, at Nirox Projects at Arts on Main, before being included in collapsed form in Teeming, an exhibition at Circa in 2014 that featured a cross section of Lace’s studio practice, over the previous four years. The fishing lines and dragonflies that had previously been spread out across the grid are now clustered together and the insects replaced with many more feathered fishing flies. Lace’s fascination with structure and process and the evocation of the fragility of life are evident in the making visible of what is usually unseen, the traces between taut and tangled and the implied time lapse between, as referenced in the title.

Provenance

Donated by the artist