Restructure Mini, 2020 is part of Lionel Smit’s Reposition collection, a body of work that explores this theme by engaging with physical and ideological forms of relocation.
As Smit explains, various acts of repositioning informed this exhibition. For their final viewing in the Uitstalling Art Gallery, Smit’s work had to be relocated from one continent to another, thus travelling in a time when a global pandemic made it impossible for humans to move with the same ease that they once enjoyed (or even thought of as normal). Smit’s work also activates another interpretation of reposition, one that comes into play when one reads the Belgian and South African contexts next to one another. Each country has its unique viewpoints, cultural heritage and sense of identity, and just a repositioning in terms of context and locality changes the way that the viewer engages with the subject matter of these paintings. Smit revels in such idiosyncrasies and sees them as points of exchange - as places where the viewer has to reposition themselves in relation to that which they see, whilst bearing in mind that the same work means something else when seen in another context.
Bronze
Variable edition of 20
23 x 15 x 14cm
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7 сен 2024
