Empty rooms

Ravelle Pillay

Empty rooms, 202330 x 43.5cmSign in to view price
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Material
pair of two-colour lithograph on somerset velvet white 300gsm
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This striking pair of artwork features bold, expressionistic brushstrokes in deep shades of green, punctuated by vibrant splashes of orange. The compositions depict fantastical, castle-like structures nestled within lush, forested settings, evoking a sense of mystery and enchantment. The artist's distinctive painting technique, marked by a sense of urgency and spontaneity, lends the pieces a captivating, almost dreamlike quality. These imaginative works likely reflect the artist's personal vision and exploration of the relationship between the natural and the built environment. ...

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Empty rooms
Artist
Ravelle Pillay
B.1993, South African

Ravelle Pillay (b.1993, Durban, South Africa) is a Johannesburg-based painter whose practice mines the haunting reverberations of history, extracted from archival photography and inherited memories. As a starting point, the artist collects family photographs stretching back generations alongside a broader archive of portrait and landscape photography as imperfect portals into the past. The process of meeting the canvas with unstable imagery is underpinned by an inevitable grappling with the legacies of colonialism and migration. Questions around agency to shape familial and national narratives, as well as access to power and land ownership, haunt Pillay’s polarised family history primarily as descendants of Indian indentured workers but also, more distantly, of British aristocrats, speaking to wider social issues in contemporary South Africa and beyond. ...

Ravelle Pillay: Artworks
Empty rooms
Ravelle Pillay
Empty rooms, 2023
30 x 43.5cm
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