Floor Mark
c. 21st century
Anonymous


The particular art work combines different mediums and subjects such as the environment, zigzags and lazy employees who drag things on the floor. The piece was conceived when the artist was walking past this white building several times being probed by curiosity at what it holds, while at the same time fearful and so she developed an imaginary relationship with the space from a distance.

Judging from the way light filters into darkness you can already associate it with racial identity and the line transcends both boundaries. The work takes us back to the beginning of the 21century in the mother city during a time when spaces with similar architecture had connotations of the apartheid governance and an era where most black people stepped into such environment when they were appearing in front of the judge to defend themselves against shit that they didn’t even do in the first place.

And so on the floor marks piece, the artist focuses on wooden floors that have a pre nineteen ninety four feel to them and the ideology of living permanent marks in random places.

Using the ground as a canvass the artist finds herself engaging with the space on a zigzag level☺, questioning the issues of spending fifteen rands entrance fee into the space and the usage of repetitive patterns by modern society. The presentation of the piece engages the viewer to look deeper in to the ground in finding a purpose for work that exist by chance.

Nonkululeko Mlangeni