Design and art must be based on a concept.
The Hypnotized Society artwork is constructed of a stamp that is a replica of a police form one receives when reporting a crime. The four different artworks are hand stamped on a pastel colored paper. This is on of the most important works in the installation, if not the most important. It might be difficult to understand, and for a foreigner probably impossible to understand if the concept is not explained, or it if one has not been to the police. Literally the viewer is asked to read between the lines.
People tend to see what they want to see, not see what they actually see in front of them. Many people are not necessarily able to connect the police form and the artwork, and their replica character, as the police form can be normally found at the police stations, not in an art gallery. Ministry likes to leave things unexplained and up to the viewer to interpret.
The philosophy of the ministry is to copy-paste text from a source and create art from that text. This simple and repetitive pattern is the way the ministry works. The process is more important than the design and the work itself is done in a very quick manner, can be compared to crime. If you snooze you loose kind of philosophy!
Viva Windhoek Lager-! juxtaposes the philosophy of Ubuntu, the thought of African youth and the pitfalls of national consciousness from different printed sources that highlight different perspectives of the society in one artwork.
The Hypnotized Society artwork is constructed of a stamp that is a replica of a police form one receives when reporting a crime. The four different artworks are hand stamped on a pastel colored paper. This is on of the most important works in the installation, if not the most important. It might be difficult to understand, and for a foreigner probably impossible to understand if the concept is not explained, or it if one has not been to the police. Literally the viewer is asked to read between the lines.
People tend to see what they want to see, not see what they actually see in front of them. Many people are not necessarily able to connect the police form and the artwork, and their replica character, as the police form can be normally found at the police stations, not in an art gallery. Ministry likes to leave things unexplained and up to the viewer to interpret.
The philosophy of the ministry is to copy-paste text from a source and create art from that text. This simple and repetitive pattern is the way the ministry works. The process is more important than the design and the work itself is done in a very quick manner, can be compared to crime. If you snooze you loose kind of philosophy!
Viva Windhoek Lager-! juxtaposes the philosophy of Ubuntu, the thought of African youth and the pitfalls of national consciousness from different printed sources that highlight different perspectives of the society in one artwork.
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