COLLABORATION / 2020
MESSAGE
9574
9,574 kilometres. Two dimensions in conversation.
During lockdown, artist Annamieke Engelbrecht in Cape Town and architecture student Anna Mańka in Eindhoven began exchanging images online. Their collaboration moved between oil painting and digital architectural rendering, translating a shared visual language across 9,574 kilometres.
A painting became a three-dimensional space; a render returned as a flat image. Each translation changed the work and opened another possibility. The distance between the artists became a productive space for exchange, while the differences between their practices challenged the limits of medium and dimension.
In Collaboration with https://zemeatelier.com/
“The most interesting conversation happening in our Message 9574 series is the one between our mediums: one that is centuries old and was used by many masters with a rich and colourful history and the other which is very contemporary and current, technology driven and continuously being updated. This dialogue between analogue and digital was the main drive when creating the series.”
