Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

81 607 Lisa Brice SOUTH AFRICAN 1968– Untitled IV signed with the artist’s initials and dated 05; inscribed with the artist’s name, title, date and medium on a Goodman Gallery label adhered to the reverse oil on paper sheet size: 150 by 125 cm R100 000 – 150 000 EXHIBITED Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Lisa Brice: Night Vision, 21 January to 11 February 2006. ‘From early childhood, film provided an escape for Brice. As an artist working in Trinidad, she became a regular at the weekly gatherings of the StudioFilmClub (SFC) run by artists Peter Doig and Che Lovelace. Night vision photographs taken by Brice during the screenings were used to illustrate and record the atmosphere of the SFC nights in a catalogue printed by Walter Koenig, for an exhibition of Doig’s painted SFC posters at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Kunsthalle, Zurich, 2005. […] Whilst drawing on her usual accumulation of imagery from media sources, the work is also informed by the hundreds of night vision photographs that Brice has taken over the last few years, during her exploration and new found fascination with the medium of photography. The almost monochromatic greenish palette of the night vision mode on video cameras suggests, apart from the eeriness of the desaturated colour, a sense of intrigue and an invasion of privacy. This investigation reveals the variety of forms fear takes on, like a shape shifter, forms often found in folklore, religion, film, children’s stories, politics as well as in our personal mythologies … the work is intended to suggest a struggle in which hope and magic have the possibility of prevailing.’ 1 1. Goodman Gallery (2006) ‘Lisa Brice/Night Vision’, https://www.goodman -gallery. com/exhibitions/455