(Colour photograph
face-mounted on acrylic)
The Durban Art Gallery is currently hosting Green Screen, an exhibition of
photographs by Durban artist Janet Solomon.
The intention of the exhibition
is 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. 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 Durban Art Gallery on situated on the 2nd Floor, City
Hall, Anton Lembede Street. For more information, contact Jabu Mngwengwe on 031
311 2264/8 / Jabu.Mngwengwe@durban.gov.za
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