Europa’s Libation

2006

 

Europa’s Libation is a metaphoric application of salt to the wound. An archaic ‘waterbankie’ or ‘washer-woman’s bench’ is symbolically preserved in a crystallised layer of salt, suspending the work in an ephemeral process. The work extracts moisture from the air and transports it, along with some salt, to the tray below. Accompanying the material movement of the salt is, more importantly, conceptual movement; a flux of implicated meaning that is evoked by the material’s vast cultural, anthropological and symbolic significance.

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In the collection of Modern Art Projects South Africa (MAPSA) Richmond, NC.