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FRANCOIS JONKER | Where is the Line? Exhibition Statement
Where is the line? The one that is drawn temporarily, yet forcefully between what is acceptable and what is unthinkable? The line is a finish line, one that separates success from failure, or process from completion. The line is a lane, demarcating the margins of one’s allowed freedoms. The line is a net, that despite its permeability cannot be passed through. The line is the liminal space - the somewhere in-between. Yet, in most instances, the line is a border or an edge, limiting one’s movements while simultaneously providing a space to reside in. In this body of work, Francois Jonker relies primarily on the graphic language of the lined spaces (such as fields, courts and tracks) that contain and direct competitive athletes as a means to explore these questions of normativity, compliance, performance and expectation. Additionally, the artist brings awareness to the presence of spectatorship - the line of sight. Endless rows of vacant seats invite a multitude of imagined eyes to watch, scrutinise, judge and support from the sidelines. Throughout this body of work, these lines emerge and dissolve as they oscillate between definition and dematerialisation, sometimes locating the line and other times losing it completely.
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FRANCOIS JONKER | Where is the Line?
PA I N T I N G S
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Guided Redirection, 2019 50 x 70cm Oil on paper R10 500
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Lines of Sight, 2019 50 x 70cm Oil on paper R10 500
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Margins of Repetition, 2019 50 x 70cm Oil on paper R10 500
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Into the Deep End, 2019 50 x 70cm Oil on paper R10 500
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Stadium of spectres, 2019 50 x 70cm Oil on paper R10 500
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Curtain Call, 2019 70 x 100cm Oil on paper R19 500
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Fields of Containment, 2019 70 x 100cm Oil on paper R19 500
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On Court, 2019 70 x 100cm Oil on paper R19 500
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FRANCOIS JONKER | Where is the Line?
DRAWINGS
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Integument, 2019 50 x 70cm Pigment and talcum powder R6 700
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Veiled Threshold #1, 2019 29 x 70cm Pigment of paper R4 200
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The Margins of Play #1, 2019 50 x 70cm Charcoal and graphite R6 700
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The Margins of Play #2, 2019 50 x 70cm Charcoal, graphite and talcum powder R6 700
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The Margins of Play #3, 2019 50 x 70cm Charcoal, graphite and talcum powder R6 700
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Entwined, 2019 50 x 70cm Pigment of paper R6 700
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Entangled, 2019 50 x 70cm Pigment of paper R6 700
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Veiled Threshold #2, 2019 25 x 70cm Pigment of paper R4 200
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Veiled Threshold #3, 2019 25 x 70cm Pigment of paper R4 200
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Breathing Configuration, 2019 70 x 100cm Charcoal and graphite R9 800
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