You are cordially invited to the MFA submission exhibition opening
REFUGIUM
By Luke Kaplan
Date: Fri 14th Feb 2014 (until the 21st Feb)
Time: 5 for 5:30pm
Venue: Alumni Gallery, Albany History Museum, Somerset St, Grahamstown
Acknowledgements: The National Arts Council of South Africa, The National Arts Festival/John Hodgkiss Bursary and Visual and Performing Arts of Africa
Extract:
Homeless and a wanderer, Eldrich roams widely across South Africa, always walking. He experiences the world very differently from what might tentatively be called the norm; he experiences real or imagined historical events with a visceral immediacy in the different places through which he passes. Besides these ‘historical’ events, he experiences the landscape as a living entity or as a place containing living entities; so that a mountain or a river or a tree has a character, a genius loci, that he is able to see. The animate and inanimate worlds, for Eldrich, are thus imbued with agency. He wanders through the these landscapes, living in the open, eating what presents itself or not at all, keeping company with the beings who people his inner and outer wilderness.