Browyn Lace's latest exhibition Mirror Mirror revolves around a video installtion by the same title created at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. The film is drawn from thousands of timelapse images taken in the museum's basement, which were captured every minute over a period of three days, of a possi of Dermestes maculatus (carrion beetle) feasting on a barn owl. The resulting video is combined with sounds of mourning composed by South African composers and vocalists Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Xolisile Bongwana.
The exhibition also features a range of other media that Lace has become well known for during the past 5 years including delicately perforated and gold threaded paper, bronze castings, precisely folded origami, embellished bones, ink blottings and X-ray works. In Mirror Mirror Lace continues her preoccupation with the process of transition and transformation, using particularly the darker elements of life such as decay, abandon and neglect to portray the mysteries of life, death, destruction and seduction.
The exhibition opening event Thu Aug 23 from 18:00.
Artist walkabouts Sat Aug 25 from 10:30.
