Association of Arts Pretoria
173 Mackie Street
Nieuw Mucleneuk
Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria Art Museum
Cnr Francis Baard and Wessels Str,
Arcadia Park,Arcadia,
Pretoria, South Afric
Tel: 012 358 6750
Doctor Crots’s f____d up anatomy
Ceramic tiles
13,5cm x 10cm x 6cm
The ceramic book represents the severity of the human body and anatomy in a less severe way. The artworks play on the futility of the human existence and how a subject of such serious matter can seem of little importance when looked at from a subjective point of view. The book depicts how the human body can be seen and interpreted as an object in our day and age. With references to medical and scientific facts about the human body, the essence of “human” comes off as irrelevant and sometimes, even as a joke.
The goal of the book is the realisation of the human and its rather small impact and role in society and on earth, the human is reminded that it is replaceable, disposable and unimportant - just like an object being made fun of.