Portfolio (short) - March 2022

Bev Butkow embodied-entanglements/entangled-embodiments 2020 Site-specific installation Bag Factory Artist Studios, Newtown, Johannesburg All images © Bev Butkow. Photos: Anthea Pokroy, Thekiso Mokhele

Portfolio March 2022

embodied-enTANglements/enTANgled-embodiments Immersive installation 2021 Origins Centre Museum, Wits University, Johannesburg

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Installation 2022 Made with Heidi Stroh, Sharon Maxinyane, Cynthia Maxinyane, Menard Hunga Glass, plastic, wood and metal beads, artificial pearls, fabric offcuts, galvanised roofing wire, ribbon, plastic shopping bags, dishcloth, wool, fishing gut, string, wood, polystyrene balls, faux fur, canvas, hangers, embodied traces of time/labour/exertion/conversation/ instruction3 200 x 390 cm (height variable)

It’s My Superpower and My Curse 2021 Made with Cynthia Maxinyane, Sharon Maxinyane, Menard Hunga Galvanised roofing wire, fabric offcuts, ribbon, fabric rope, imitation pearls, cable ties, insulation tape, feather dusters, wool, repurposed oil painting, plastic beads, plastic cord, glass beads, plastic shopping bags, plastic mesh, expanding foam, cardboard box, embodied traces of time/labour/exertion/ conversation/instruction 4 approx. 200 x 120 x 120 cm

Challenge the bounds of acceptability Made with Marguerite Sanders Plastic mesh, string, wool, plastic and wooden beads, plastic pearls, repurposed canvas, cable ties, fabric, ribbon, metal washers, insulation tape 2021 approx. 140 x 92 x 20 cm

A suggestiveness Made with Pinky Moyo 2020 glass, plastic, wood and metal beads, artificial pearls, fishing gut, string, embodied traces of time/labour/exertion/conversation/ instruction approx. 110 x 83 cm

In relation to its space Made with Thandiswa Maxinyane.

Weave, made of cut up oil painting, dressmaking scraps, wool, ribbon, glass and plastic beads, fishing gut, embodied traces of time/labour/exertion/conversation/ instruction, clothes hanger 2021 139 x 64 x 10 cm

held residues Made with Marguerite Sanders 2020 String, repurposed painting stretcher frame, embodied traces of time/ labour/exertion/creative process 130 x 130 cm