Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

38 24 Berni Searle SOUTH AFRICAN 1964– Enfold, from the Seeking Refuge series signed, dated 2008 and numbered ED 2/5 in pencil in the margin archival pigment ink on cotton rag paper image size: 102 by 144 cm; sheet size: 112 by 154 cm R30 000 – 50 000 Photo credit: Tony Meintjes. ‘Berni Searle’s video Refuge (2008), filmed in the barren volcanic landscape of Lanzarote Island in the Canaries, has the black-clad artist walk barefoot from the sea through dark sand dunes, finally spiraling in on a hollow in the landscape where she curls up. Finding refuge by returning on her path may well symbolise a need to restore a more direct contact with our planet, a means to claim our place within it.’ Virginia MacKenny. (2013) ‘Land Matters’, Art South Africa , vol.11, No. 4, Winter, Page 44.