Amidst Borders
curated by Arno Taljaard
2024
Amidst Borders explores the spaces where landscape, memory and human understanding meet.
Through painting, drawing and collected visual references, this exhibition reflects on the ways people locate themselves within the world—between inherited histories, changing environments and contemporary life.
The works move between observation and contemplation, using familiar landscapes as places to consider ideas of connection, belonging and the search for meaning.
Rather than presenting nature as something separate from us, the exhibition approaches it as a shared space where personal and collective experience overlap.
Architectural forms, open land and recurring structures become markers of human presence within a world that remains larger than us.
Alongside the artworks, process materials and research elements reveal part of the thinking behind the work—showing how sketching, geometry, symbolism and observation become tools for understanding rather than answers in themselves.
Amidst Borders invites viewers to slow down and consider the places they occupy: geographically, historically and inwardly.
Artworks
"Vailed Wisdom"
Installation art
Veiled Wisdom explores humanity’s enduring search for meaning. Across generations, we have gathered around books, symbols, nature, mathematics, philosophy, and faith, each offering only a fragment of a much larger truth.
The installation presents the artist’s workspace as both a study and a sanctuary—a place where observation, experimentation, and contemplation converge. Ancient geometry sits beside contemporary drawing; scientific inquiry exists alongside spiritual reflection. Together they suggest that wisdom is not a destination but a lifelong practice.
Although separated from our ancestors by centuries of technological progress, our deepest questions remain remarkably unchanged. We continue to seek understanding, purpose, and our place within the universe.
Veiled Wisdom invites viewers to reflect on the pursuit of mastery—not as the accumulation of answers, but as the discipline of continually asking better questions.