Veiled Threats | Ilené Bothma 31.08 – 23.09.2016
Ilené Bothma’s latest solo exhibition consists of a series of selfportraits investigating identity politics within the domestic space, specifically the role of the woman within this sphere.
This body of work developed out of the artist’s interest in the uncanny nature of home, an increasing concern about violence perpetrated against the home, as well as a long standing unease with issues surrounding the self. Watercolours in combination with mixed media works investigate surface and artifice, distortions of identity and adaptations of the self in the face of things we have no control over. “My art practice questions the ambivalence that I experience towards the domestic. It is in this state of questioning, of feeling
vulnerable and exposed, that I explore the comfortable and the awkward; the controlled and uncontrolled; the familiar and the strange; exteriority and interiority. It is at the meeting-point of these dualities where these pairings slip and merge that I situate my work. It is in this space that ambiguity opens up, where hesitation, confusion, misunderstandings and mistakes materialises. It is a faltering point, which is sometimes unknowable and unspeakable.”
Ilené Bothma was born in 1981 in Port-Elizabeth. She received a BA in Fine Art (with distinction) in 2003 and an MA in Fine Art, in 2007, both degrees from the Stellenbosch University. She received a second MA in Fine Art (with distinction) in 2011 from Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.
Ilené Bothma Thinly Veiled Threat Watercolour on Hahnemühle paper 54 x 43.5 cm IB00716A R9,500
Ilené Bothma Tiny Threat 2 Oil paint, glue & enamel on board 18 x 18 cm IB01216A R1,500
I lené Bothma Tiny Threat 1 Oil paint, glue & enamel on board 18 x 18 cm IB01116A R1,500 SOLD
Ilené Bothma Credible Threat Watercolour on Hahnemühle paper 54 x 43.5 cm IB00516A R9,500
Ilené Bothma Tiny Threat 3 Oil paint, glue & enamel on board 18 x 18 cm IB01316A R1,500
Ilené Bothma Tiny Threat 6 Oil paint, glue & enamel on board 18 x 18 cm IB01516A R1,500
IlenĂŠ Bothma Empty Threat Oil paint, glue & enamel on paper 54 x 43.5 cm IB01016A R9,500
Ilené Bothma Blackmail Watercolour on Hahnemühle paper 54 x 43.5 cm IB00416A R9,500
Ilené Bothma Triple Threat Watercolour on Hahnemühle paper 54 x 43.5 cm IB00316A R9,500 SOLD
Ilené Bothma Tiny Threat 4 Oil paint, glue & enamel on board 18 x 18 cm IB01416A R1,500
Ilené Bothma Tiny Threat 5 Oil paint, glue & enamel on board 18 x 18 cm IB01616A R1,500
IlenĂŠ Bothma Idle Threat Oil paint, glue & enamel on paper 54 x 43.5 cm IB00916A R9,500
Ilené Bothma Grave Threat Watercolour on Hahnemühle paper 54 x 43.5 cm IB00616A R9,500
IlenĂŠ Bothma Conditional Threat Oil paint, glue & enamel on paper 54 x 43.5 cm IB00816A R9,500