Marsi van de Heuvel

Notes

Forms part of a larger body of work, titled Skoonveld - " an Afrikaans word selected by the artist for its implied study of the act of disappearing. For these works, the transient medium of chalk is deployed to explore the act of fading as part of the artist's interest in the systematic historical erasure of the culture of a diverse group of people whom the apartheid government labelled 'coloured'. The artist explores this erasure through her discovery of family photographs that record their experiences living in Upington, Graaff Reinet and Umtata during this period in South Africa's history.