Material Immaterial, a solo exhibition by Jeremy Wafer at Goodman Gallery, coincides with the artist's 70th birthday. Following a hugely productive residency earlier this year at NIROX Sculpture Park, Wafer continues his decades-long exploration of dislocation, memory and materiality through this new body of work.

In Material Immaterial, Wafer fills the gallery with seemingly ordinary materials such as blankets, ropes and glass bottles, and natural materials such as sand, salt, oil and water. Each item is a rich conceptual metaphor, however, and speaks to the artist’s preoccupation with land and seascapes as the sites of memories, desire and vulnerability. It is a quiet exhibition, and one that requires a considered viewing.

Altogether Material Immaterial holds the traces of an artist who has spent the past 40 years honing his practice and making sense of the complexity and the poetry of land in South Africa.