Renzske Scholtz

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'Vlakplaas'

Renzske Scholtz presents Vlakplaas in the Main gallery.  In 1979 Scholtz's grandfather sold his farm whose name 'Vlakplaas' (Shallow farm) had, for years, signalled the flat, peaceful plains of the Highveld, to the State Security Department. He did not know that it would become the headquarters of the C1 Unit from 1979 to 1993. Operating as a parliamentary hit squad, the C1 unit captured political opponents of the government, tortured them and then either turned them, making them Askaris or executed them. This exhibition examines the ways in which land can become transformed by the events that it bears witness to. Vlakplaas the exhibition confronts both the artists irrepressible attachment to an ancestral home and the ways in which land itself can appear changed, not by any physical alteration, but by the events that occur on it.

07 May 2012 - 01 June 2012