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Nelmarie Du Preez: Atmosphere for Anticipation
RIBOT is proud to present the first solo show in Italy by Nelmarie Du Preez (Pretoria 鈥� South Africa, 1985, lives and works in Pretoria). A selection of recent works that transport the onlooker into an alternative universe, one constellated with robotic devices that analyse and question the relationship between man and technology.
The title Atmosphere for Anticipation denotes the artist鈥檚 interest developed over her more recent studies on the concept of 鈥榩rediction鈥�, meant not so much as a supposition based of conjectures and clues, concerning what is to come, but as a genuine discipline that uses the future in its actual decision-making processes, implying an action and a movement. It鈥檚 from these specific research projects that Project 01: The Movement originates: the installation on the first floor of the gallery, conceived and staged especially for the show.
The work presents an outright reconstruction of a place of worship of the future, abandoned on Mars and brought to life by elements with a high symbolic value: the flag of a para-religious movement, celebratory totems, the relics deployed in the various rituals emerging from the orange sand, and a robotic hand with a human semblance placed symbolically in the centre of the scene tapping it鈥檚 fingers on 鈥楳ars鈥�, which is in a state of emergency.
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RIBOT is proud to present the first solo show in Italy by Nelmarie Du Preez (Pretoria 鈥� South Africa, 1985, lives and works in Pretoria). A selection of recent works that transport the onlooker into an alternative universe, one constellated with robotic devices that analyse and question the relationship between man and technology.
The title Atmosphere for Anticipation denotes the artist鈥檚 interest developed over her more recent studies on the concept of 鈥榩rediction鈥�, meant not so much as a supposition based of conjectures and clues, concerning what is to come, but as a genuine discipline that uses the future in its actual decision-making processes, implying an action and a movement. It鈥檚 from these specific research projects that Project 01: The Movement originates: the installation on the first floor of the gallery, conceived and staged especially for the show.
The work presents an outright reconstruction of a place of worship of the future, abandoned on Mars and brought to life by elements with a high symbolic value: the flag of a para-religious movement, celebratory totems, the relics deployed in the various rituals emerging from the orange sand, and a robotic hand with a human semblance placed symbolically in the centre of the scene tapping it鈥檚 fingers on 鈥楳ars鈥�, which is in a state of emergency.
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