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Artist Statement Human existence and natural environment are linked, through timeless, mysterious convergences of journeys. My work is predominantly assembled using found objects from both the natural/man-made dichotomy. The found objects invoke a sense of preciousness and nostalgia. On my own travels I collect remnants of other journeys. Bodies, skulls, bones, skin, hair, excrement, physical remains of odysseys completed or abruptly ended, some still in progress. Our ultimate destiny, death and decay, may be predictable and inevitable but our paths and distances never are. The animal remains are a reference to life and death and where the two intersect. I re-contextualize the objects in an unpremeditated, non-deliberate manner with the intention to beautify the ordinary. Access to the individual significance these objects carried when alive or in use, is oblique, mostly hidden. Meaning is imbued through selection, arrangement, designing. I value them for their ineffable beauty and marvel at their veiled associations with my own mortality. - Sarel Petrus
Exhibitions - 2009 Sticks and Stones 6 Feb-6March.
Group exhibition, 38 Special, Cape town (sub)TEKS
7-14Maart.
Group exhibition, Universiteit van Stellenbos KunsGallery, Woordfees Local Anatomy
14 March-3April
Show with Edzard du Plessis, Gordart Gallery, Johannesburg Presies
24February – 25 April.
Group exhibition, What if the world, Hope street design studio, Cape town, curated by Dirk de Waal From this World
24 April.
Exhibition at Harrie’s Pancakes, Centurion History in Rust
14 May- 6June.
Group exhibition, Platform on 18th, Pretoria Mind the Adjustment
4 July-17July.
Group exhibition, Magpie Gallery, Centurion Thami Mnyele Fine Art Award
27 June-10July.
Awarded Top 10, Coen Scholtz Recreation Centre, Kempton Park Scenario18July-26July.Group Exhibition, Carol Lee Fine Art, Johannesburg
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