In collaboration with Colleen Wafer Marker, Civitella Ranieri, 2002

Jeremy Wafer
In collaboration with Colleen Wafer Marker, Civitella Ranieri, 2002, 2014
Photoemulsion on galvanised steel
Work: 20 x 14 cm

Jeremy Wafer (b. 1953, Durban, South Africa) works across sculpture, photography, video and drawing, exploring the politics and poetics of place. Rooted in South Africa’s social, cultural and political geography, his work engages issues of land and territory, particularly themes of location, dislocation, possession and dispossession. According to critic Sean O’Toole, Wafer’s practice is “striking in its responsiveness to the particularities of South Africa’s land” (This is no place for lovely pictures, 2022). Indeed, throughout his forty-year career, Wafer has employed topographic and oceanic references to consider the geological and sociohistorical realities and imaginaries that surround his sites of investigation. This body of work stems from Wafer’s decades-long exploration of dislocation, memory and materiality.