Strauss & co - 17 February 2018, Cape Town

122 Strauss & co contemporary art auction 41 Abrie Fourie SOUTH AFRICAN b1969 Detail,Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, South Africa 2001 edition 2 of 3 lambda print diasec 80 by 120cm R50 000 – 70 000 EXHIBITED Vision Building: Architecture in Contemporary Photography , curated by Erin Dziedzic and Stephanie Greene, SCAD, Savannah, GA, USA. I have lived in Pretoria for the better part of my life and I remember this particular building - the Voortrekker Monument – as an image that permeated my youth.What is interesting about this building now is its dreamlike quality. A castle built on sand but standing still, a casket emptied of its historic glory, the remnant of a past best forgotten by many. My practice favours an interdisciplinary approach that includes social, political, cultural and historical production, bridging issues of gender, migration, place, violence, aesthetics and questions about medium specificity and transcultural emanations of the photograph. Abrie Fourie