(One of the works on the exhibition)
The exhibition of
photographs and paintings by Janet Solomon coming to the Durban Art Gallery this week is
intended to set up associations between reality and artifice, death and life.
The term “Green Screen” is used in
the digital world when an image of a subject is taken against a green
background. The green is then erased and replaced by a different background
thus manipulating reality.
Solomon compares
this technique to the way in which museums traditionally displayed groups of
people or animals in dioramas. The diorama is a construction similar to a stage
set housed in a glass showcase and is intended to give a context to the
reconstructed humans and animals. This results in a false sense of reality,
comparable to how the Green Screen manipulates the digital image.
This is Janet
Solomon’s fifth solo show, comprising more than 30 works from 2011 to 2014. The
exhibition will be opened on May 14 at 17h30 and all are welcome to attend.
Green Screen runs from May 14
to June 28 in the Durban Art
Gallery, 2nd Floor, City Hall, Anton Lembede Street. For more information
contact 031 311 2264/8.
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