Barbara Wildenboer
Born 1973, lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa
Wildenboer’s fifth solo exhibition, Canaries in the coalmine, opens on Wednesday 2 May 2012 at ErdmannContemporary.
Wildenboer is a conceptualist using various photographic processes and techniques bringing across ideas of memory held and lost and the imprint of fleeting life recorded. Most of her works are combinations of mixed media with photography. Wildenboer explores underlining notions of time and the paradoxical relationship between past and present states of being.
Recently, she has shifted her focus to paper cutting and altered books. Through the process of altering books, she emphasises our understanding of the abstract terms of science through metaphor, and the assumed authority of text.
Winner of the Public Vote Prize at the 2011 African Art Prize competition.