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W4300
24.05.2011
Laundry Line - zavick botha
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  • Washing clothes and laundry lines are common day to day images of human activity throughout most of the world. Although in Western society something so ordinary now takes place behind closed doors. Some people use clothes to express their identity, in oth ...

    Washing clothes and laundry lines are common day to day images of human activity throughout most of the world. Although in Western society something so ordinary now takes place behind closed doors. Some people use clothes to express their identity, in other cultures clothes are used to hide a personality, but a complete laundry line always reveals something private. When we, Ulric and Zavick, met whilst participating in programs, hosted by Greatmore Studio’s in Woodstock, Cape Town, we were inspired by each others work and attitude towards visual art and the way of show casting art, we initiated a project called ‘Laundry line/fresh washing’. The concept as such is simple and direct. Photographs shot on location are printed out on textile and sewed on (sometimes altered) clothes. These are put out in public space on a temporary laundry line in order to interact with the public. This action has been undertaken in Cape Town on 10 different locations and finally the line was burned in public. This method of working proved to be successful. The reaction of the public was vast and generally positive. We got a full front cover in the Art Times of South Africa and there are serious plans for a publication and follow up in Amsterdam, later this year. We are convinced that putting up this project in completely different surroundings, as for example a rural Arab location, a western metropolis, an isolated mountain village, a bidonville or at any other location, it will confront the local public with a different approach to their habits and society. But more important it will evoke reactions that will unveil something of their culture and add to the value of our ongoing Laundry line project.

    Washing clothes and laundry lines are common day to day images of human activity throughout most of the world. Although in Western society something so ordinary now takes place behind closed doors. Some people use clothes to express their identity, in oth ...

    Washing clothes and laundry lines are common day to day images of human activity throughout most of the world. Although in Western society something so ordinary now takes place behind closed doors. Some people use clothes to express their identity, in other cultures clothes are used to hide a personality, but a complete laundry line always reveals something private. When we, Ulric and Zavick, met whilst participating in programs, hosted by Greatmore Studio’s in Woodstock, Cape Town, we were inspired by each others work and attitude towards visual art and the way of show casting art, we initiated a project called ‘Laundry line/fresh washing’. The concept as such is simple and direct. Photographs shot on location are printed out on textile and sewed on (sometimes altered) clothes. These are put out in public space on a temporary laundry line in order to interact with the public. This action has been undertaken in Cape Town on 10 different locations and finally the line was burned in public. This method of working proved to be successful. The reaction of the public was vast and generally positive. We got a full front cover in the Art Times of South Africa and there are serious plans for a publication and follow up in Amsterdam, later this year. We are convinced that putting up this project in completely different surroundings, as for example a rural Arab location, a western metropolis, an isolated mountain village, a bidonville or at any other location, it will confront the local public with a different approach to their habits and society. But more important it will evoke reactions that will unveil something of their culture and add to the value of our ongoing Laundry line project.