Force of Circumstance
A very particular kind of poetry emanates from the work of South-African artist
Robin Rhode. Rhode speaks in connection with his works about ‘a form of theatre’ and even more so of ‘a kind of live cinema’. Standing before a succession of photographs decomposing an action (that of a body together with drawings that gradually materialize and dematerialize on the wall), one does indeed think of cinema’s primitive origins, of Étienne-Jules Marey or Eadweard Muybridge. But even more so, the fragmented narration, the bodies in profile, the relationship between these...Read more
Robin Rhode. Rhode speaks in connection with his works about ‘a form of theatre’ and even more so of ‘a kind of live cinema’. Standing before a succession of photographs decomposing an action (that of a body together with drawings that gradually materialize and dematerialize on the wall), one does indeed think of cinema’s primitive origins, of Étienne-Jules Marey or Eadweard Muybridge. But even more so, the fragmented narration, the bodies in profile, the relationship between these...Read more