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OK. Temporarily putting aside any conceptual framework I may or may not know from researching Jeremy’s work, this show is just beautiful. Wafer’s elegant use of the gallery; his textures, use of light and shadow; his play between earth and space; his ‘go’ between mappings of text, of ground, of image; all these add to a fantastic exhibition, where I felt like I was mostly floating.<\/p>\n
Then, as I begin to reel in the promised conceptual framework, I realize that it is I<\/i> who has already been pulled to it<\/i>. His (literally) modular, mathematical and coded language festers<\/i> in the back of our minds until we are jolted back to an unreality of illusive and allusive symbols.<\/p>\n
Peaceful yet provocative, they cannot be tamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OK. Temporarily putting aside any conceptual framework I may or may not know from researching Jeremy’s work, this show is just beautiful. Wafer’s elegant use of the gallery; his textures, use of light and shadow; his play between earth and space; his ‘go’ between mappings of text, of ground, of image; all these add to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-8c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2081,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/screening-screens\/","url_meta":{"origin":508,"position":0},"title":"Screening Screens","author":"nathaniel","date":"02 June 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I penned a book review for Rhizome.org, and another is coming soon. 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