KENDELL GEERS
Stripped Bare
8 March - 20 May 2021
In a world of extremes, in which centres no long hold and reason doomed, how do artists assume their occupation? They either plead neutrality or take sides. The rare few enter the eye of the storm. Kendell Geers is that creature, alive to the complexity of a given moment and the precarity of art’s expression of that moment. A volcanic intensity runs through his snarling, shattered, bullet-strewn body of work.
BY ASHRAF JAMAL
Kendell Geers and Ashraf Jamal
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Stripped Bare, 2000
Bulletproof Glass, Steel and Lead Bullets
Work: 277 x 175 x 79 cm
Lines of Flight 299, 2012
Wall installation with paint
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3
Pro Deo et Patria, 2020
White Marble Police Batons
Work: 194 x 7 x 40 cm
Edition of 3
Blows Blind Another Tame, 2015
Lead batons, iron base
Work: 73 x 32 cm
Edition of 8
Pro Aris et Focis, 2008
Gold Leaf on Lost Objects (Decommissioned Uzi Guns)
Work - each: 47 x 26 x 5 cm
SacredScarredScared, 2014
Performance Photograph
Work: 100 x 70 cm
STD 10/10