Zimra Beiner is based in Ohio where he teaches ceramics at Bowling Green State University. His work is included in the Gardiner Museum’s 4th Annual “RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award.” Here is a great article on Beiner’s work on C File.
“Looking, translating and making are continuously mixed together in a loop in which the boundary between art and life become tangled…I consider myself primarily an object maker, however I’ve become increasingly interested in scale, composition, and the relationship between objects to space. Therefore the way objects sit on objects, rest on the floor, and are supported in space requires careful consideration. Some of the most recent work uses wet clay, wooden boxes or books to support ceramic objects in place. The resulting still lives are a reflection on knowledge, imagination and the precarious confliction resulting from one supporting the other.” – Zimbra Beiner
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1 Fatima // Feb 17, 2016 at 11:29 am
It’s a pity that South Africa’s Department of home Affairs couldn’t have taken a leaf from their Zimbabwean conpteruarts’ book. Earlier this week, I was told by a Beitbridge (Zim)resident trying to cross to go to the dentist in Musina that the queue at SA Immigration was from the border post building and snaked all the way back down the road as far as the bridge, a good 700 metres away. Had he not had a contact , he would have had to wait in the queue with all of the other hundreds and hundreds of people trying to cross. There is no dispensation for locals . Crazy situation. Also crazy that Beitbridge’s Home Affairs staff have a very disinterested attitude to moving the crowds as quickly as possible, by whatever means possible. They KNOW that there are going to be busses and busses full of shoppers at this time of year. The I’m here for an 8 hour shift, you may as well, be, too , attitude is almost tangible. Absolutely no wonder that people are shunning this border post for Plumtree and Grobler’s Bridge.We, who work here, are just waiting for tthe rush to start, with the manufacturing sector and construction sector shutting, for the most part, their doors today. Monday, coming to work is going to be horrific.Brian Kalshoven
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