SOME DANCE TO REMEMBER SOME DANCE TO FORGET
Blank Projects
Woodstock, Cape Town
14 April - 7 May 2011
In her 11th solo exhibition Sanell Aggenbach marks a personal point of transition and suspension between states of youth and adulthood. In a tribute to music as muse, seminal albums and iconic rock images are reproduced in a series of monotype prints. Pennie Smith’s epic photo of The Clash’s Paul Simonon smashing his bass guitar, Peter Saville’s Joy Division covers and PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, among others, are offered as both adopted comrades and transient markers of rebel identity. Aggenbach’s installation photographs and illusive paintings are a haunted critique of Afrikaner identity from a generation inspired by post-punk musicians and their performance art. - Roger van Wyk
