Notes

The present lot is accompanied by a boxed collectors edition publication and a certificate of authenticity.

In Nine Weeks, Gratrix turns the focus onto herself. One work in sixty-three parts, the artwork consists of a series of watercolor self-portraits created during South Africa’s military-enforced quarantine, one each day. Implemented as an Instagram project as a means of connecting to the outside world—leaving the house, even for a walk was forbidden by law except during state-sanctioned times dictated by the government—the titles of each day's painting offer first-person views of a somewhat universal  experience. Taken as a whole, the artist’s portraits are a maddening glimpse of the evolution of identity under quarantine. 

Provenance

Kindly donated by the Artist and SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Stellenbosch