Elfriede Dreyer solo exhibition, Matrix, 2022
Fri 18 Mar
|Pretoria Arts Association
In the artworks on 'Matrix' the idea of an ‘other’ space is presented: Simulated, embodied and different to the experienced, physical real.
Time & Location
18 Mar 2022, 18:00 – 02 Apr 2022, 14:00
Pretoria Arts Association, 173 Mackie St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
About the event
In Matrix, the idea of an ‘other’ space is presented: Simulated, embodied and different to the experienced, physical real.
The idea of matrix is connected to simulation and illusion, and it is presented here as a construction, space or a place (mostly fictional). On one hand, matrixial space could be virtual space that we inhabit as human cyborgs; on the other hand it could be any other kind of ‘world’, dream or condition; or it could even be utopian space. Sometimes a constructed matrix can become so real that it becomes intertwined with the physical real. It is constituted by relationships, wishes, emotions and connections; it is volatile and can change from moment to moment. New things are constantly birthed there, but it also intersects and interacts with other matrixes and the physical real. And we continue to create matrixes within the matrix of time.
On René Magritte’s…