Paper presented by Lyndi Sales for a seminar at the University of Cape Town 2010. …
Joyce Monson Reviews The 1 in 11 000 000 Chances Exhibition
Notwithstanding Lyndi Sales’ skilfully executed work on the universal themes of chance, loss, memory, and the fragility of life, her exhibition 1 in 1 000 000 chances is somewhat marred by a bewildering absence of one material fact: The point of departure here is a plane crash …
1 in 11 000 000 Chances Exhibition Catalogue
Download the catalogue for the 1 in 11 000 000 Chances exhibition here …
“Curating The Gravesite” An Introduction To 1 in 11 000 000 Chances By Pippa Skotnes
On the 28th of October 1987 the debris of flight SA 295 floated down to the bottom of the sea. The bits of metal, glass, fabric, plastic, fragments of life vests, the cockpit voice recorder and the disintegrated and still undeclared contents of the hold drifted more than four kilometres to the abyssal plain …
Artist’s Statement For Anomaly Exhibition
This work is an exploration of a contemporary interpretation of the traditional subjects of wonder and astonishment. Cabinets of curiosities were popular during the late Renaissance and Baroque periods and serve as a springboard for this exhibition. Inspired by the age of curiosity where collections were accumulated to create a microscopic world consisting of all that was unfamiliar and held a degree of curiosity, my aim was to …