Lize Muller

 

Through the Looking Glass

30 September  – 14 October 2006 

Through The Looking Glass presents a body of works that can be described as a visual dialogue of fragments - of disconnected images acting as triggers to individual imagination. These visual fragments or decontextualized ‘cut-ups’ become intriguing in their own random strangeness.

 

Through The Looking Glass also engages with the idea of examining something afresh, from a different angle, or focusing in on a specific element or fraction of a whole, implying a decontextualized revisitation of images through the removal of original contextual signifiers so that new and random meanings can be re-inscribed. 

The influences for the subject matter and stylistics of the works have been taken from popular visual culture, particularly from the areas of film and television, and contemporary graphic design and illustration, thus giving a stylistic ‘pop’ edge to the works.

This exhibition entailed the research for the MA (FA) degree at the University of Pretoria. Dr Elfriede Dreyer supervised the artist in her Masters studies.