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"Float: Berni Searle - Standard Bank Young Artist 2003"
2004-02-03 until 2004-02-29
Iziko-SA National Gallery
Cape Town, , ZA

Complex notions such as the fluidity of identity and gender politics are common themes in the artworks of Cape Town-based artist Berni Searle. Winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for 2003, Searle utilizes both photography and video to engage the desire for agency and self-representation in an environment historically associated with superficial classificatory systems. By inserting her body in the artworks, Searle plays with the effects of presence and absence, constantly shifting and constructing new selves.

FLOAT is Berni Searle's first major South African solo exhibition. She has exhibited and held residencies locally and throughout Europe, North America, Africa, and Australia. The Standard Bank Young Artist award has afforded Searle the opportunity to mount her most extensive exhibition to date, specifically for South African audiences. FLOAT features three of Searle's video installations and related two-dimensional photographic work. Snow White (2001), which was exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale, is Searle's first video work. In A Matter of Time (2003), commissioned by the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum, Searle metaphorically explores the challenges of personal identity by navigating a slippery and uncertain terrain. Searle's most recent video work, Home and Away (2003), was filmed in the 16km oceanic divide between Spain and Morocco. Floating with the tide, Searle's body evokes the overwhelming feelings associated with a journey, including isolation, expectation, and displacement.

FLOAT is a travelling exhibition accompanied by a 72-page catalogue.

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Berni Searle: A Matter of Time, 2003
DVD projection
dimensions variable
photo courtesy of the artist and Axis Gallery, New York


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