Artist's Statement:

The works in this exhibition speak of the yearning for an anchored existence and contemplate what home means. My research around tents and temporary dwellings brought me back to memories of camping in the Drakensberg. The symbol of the tent as a desire to find a place of home in your own spirit remains the pivotal point of research, with strong awareness of our makeshift identities where, as malleable beings, we constantly tinker to find the “fit” of social, spiritual and philosophical standing.

The concern for shelter is a universal idea and it links to the awareness of safety or the tension when feeling lost. In “omgekeerd” this iterative process reflects on the impact of place and relations as constantly evolving. Walking in the mountains reduces ego and challenges one's perception of a place in the larger scheme of things.

When hiking in unfamiliar terrain, one seems hyper alert as you focus on finding the way, often reliant on mapping devices. Eventually, you flow into meditative silence. I used the tortoise as a metaphor for slow time and for becoming merged into this place of safety.

The small isodome tent, which my late husband and I used when camping, was, in its apparent flimsy materiality, a place of safety for me. The painting "Makeshift" and several of the new works include mapping of places where we hiked. Mapping suggestions was created from the collection of maps I saved over time and also from memory. The installation "Al lê die berge nog so blou" (2025) also becomes a resting space for festival viewers, as I invite exhibition visitors to lie on the mattresses placed in the tent.

Review on NETWERK24 : "Dié visuele kuns by Snowflake sal jou Aardklop omkeer" deur Susan Villiers, Beeld, 8/10/2025. 
Referenced in Diana de Beer. 2025. Aardklop punches above its weight, in De Beer Necessities.  28/10/2025.
Referenced by Vera Mihailovich-Dickman. 2025. Creative Wave from South Africa sweeps through Paris, Daily Maverick Art of Life. 22/11/2025.