Allusions to the body: Jeremy Wafer's Oval Sculptures.
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2006-10-31T12:24:01Z
Authors
Du Preez, Linda
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Abstract
This dissertation is primarily an investigation into the sculpture of Jeremy
Wafer and specifically his oval series, Red Ovals (1995), African Forms
(1996), Red Ovals (second series) (1998) and Large White Oval (2004).
The aim is to establish how, from a post-structuralist and anthropomorphic
position, these non-illusionistic sculptural forms may engage the viewer
experientially by evoking the body visually, physically and spatially.
Wafer’s reductive articulation of surface, material and form is analysed in
terms of notions of secrecy and metaphorical referencing specifically relating
to the human form. A ‘sense of disquiet’ is evoked by their ambiguity, and this
aspect is confronted by looking at various dichotomies and their transition and
hybridisation to form the ‘unifying pattern’ that Wafer’s sculptures present.
The role of process, repetition and seriality are researched within this context.
The works from my Simulacra exhibition in May 2005 at the Substation on the
University of the Witwatersrand Campus are discussed according to the
above aspects, as they are relevant to my own sculptures.
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Student Number : 0312766T -
MA dissertation -
School of Fine Arts -
Faculty of Humanities
Keywords
jeremy wafer, oval sculptures, secrecy, the body