Still
6th – 9th September 2018
Booth C23, FNB Joburg Art Fair 2018

This juxtaposition between vulnerability and performance is likewise present in the figure of the conductor, a liminal figure who exists both inside and outside of the orchestra; as well as in images where figures lie on top of pianos, bodies pressed to the surfaces as if searching for the sound within, or attempting to merge with it. Throughout, Spindler captures the public and private dimensions of creativity, the simultaneous desire for connection and resonance, and then the counter - the dissonance, fragmentation and isolation - present in each act of making. In so doing, she explores the capacity art has for both quiet and force, fullness and emptiness, the ability to crack us open, to ease us apart and to soothe us shut.

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Drawing all breaths together I
2018
oil on canvas
164 x 127 cm

Drawing all breaths together II
2018
oil on canvas
164 x 127 cm