Public Art

Co-presence (Apollonian - Dionysian), Irene Village Mall, Centurion (2007)

Medium: Steel and stainless steel | Photos by Elizabeth Olivier-Kahlua

Co-presence, is a work based on the two mythological characters Apollonian-Dionysian, but it refers to continuity and discontinuity, and the co-presence of both order and chaos, both of it is the whole story. If you show one as a singular it becomes propaganda of either order or chaos. It is also linked to the Japanese design aesthetics of wabi-sabi where nothing is perfect, nothing is finished, nothing is permanent. Therefore the clay is left to crack and break, that is cast in stainless steel but instead of polishing the work off to make it all shiny metal object like the work of Jeff Koons, it is just showing a more African approach, where we accept the chaos and order in our environment.