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James Webb
Born in 1975, Kimberley, South Africa
Overview
James Webb is an interdisciplinary artist who creates installations that poetically digest themes of faith, deep-time, nature and industry. Working in a minimalist tradition, Webb seeks out peculiar phrases, histories or objects, and puts these references under a microscope in a gallery space. Obscuration is frequently used by Webb to create a sense of revelation. For example, statues might be placed in vitrines made of fluted glass, giving them a fractured, ethereal quality. Neon and sound are ...Read more
Selected artworks
James Webb
I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds (Into something rich and strange), 2023
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James Webb
Scream, 2008
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James Webb
I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds (Towards something... not a thing), 2019
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James Webb
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, 2010 - Ongoing
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James Webb
Untitled (with the sound of its own making), 2016
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James Webb
This is where I leave you (Mother of the lost; the one who hears the cries of the world), 2020
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James Webb
This is where I leave you (A map of the heavens; manmade, fallible. A tower of celestial Babel), 2020
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James Webb
A series of personal questions addressed to five litres of Nigerian crude oil, 2020
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James Webb
This is where I leave you (Radiant guide. Equanimityin the harsh storm), 2020
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James Webb
There’s No Place Called Home, 2004 - Ongoing
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James Webb
The Black Passage, 2006
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James Webb
I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds (Solve, dissolve, revolve), 2019
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James Webb
I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds (5 paths through the dark), 2019
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James Webb
I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds (13 Views of the Moon), 2019
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James Webb
This is where I leave you (Madonna of the suffering. The origin of the universe), 2020
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