Artist: Liza Grobler
Date: 2015
Museum: Social Fabric (Cape Town, South Africa)
Technique: Photograph
Liza Grobler was Social Fabric artist-in-residence exploring mohair. In this mohair-based art work, Liza Grobler references a great fire that burned for weeks through thousands of hectares of nature reserve lying between Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope. Burnt indigenous plants, proteas and fynbos left blackened carcasses. Burning may well be a natural cycle for the plants, generating new life, but many animals were injured or killed. The traumatised landscape and the natural protective qualities of mohair came together in Liza
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