Mary Wafer - MINE - Saturday Walkabout, 11 May, 11am @ David Krut Projects, 142 Jan Smuts Ave, Parkwood, JHB

Please join us for a walkabout with Mary Wafer this Saturday 11th May at 11am, as she speaks about her latest body of work, MINE. David Krut Projects, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg.

Please also note that the exhibition has been extended until 25th May.

The series of paintings on this exhibition derive from a reflection on the events at Marikana of 16 August 2012. A strike at a Lonmin-owned platinum mine in the Marikana area close to Rustenburg lead to a series of violent confrontations between police, mine security officials, trade union leaders and miners in which 34 miners were killed and an unknown number injured.

The paintings are partially abstracted landscapes derived from media images and Wafer’s own visits to the site where the massacre happened. The works are an attempt, within the possibilities of painting, to find a way of responding to, and reflecting on, these events and the place in which they occurred. The event clearly has deep, indeed tragic, political, social and human consequences and significances. Wafer has attempted to find a way of inscribing and articulating something of her own response to these through paintings, drawing on the particularities of the environment: the harsh light, the broken and dislocated tracts of wasted land, the detritus or discarded remains of an extractive exploitation of both nature and humanity.

For more information please email claire@davidkrut.com or call the gallery on (011) 447 0627