Thelma van Rensburg
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Thelma van Rensburg STATEMENT In my collages, I use images from vintage fashion magazines, master paintings and plastic surgery illustrations to literally create grotesque female bodies of fetishized body parts. I chose collage as medium for its close relationship to the grotesque. It combines unlikely parts, which thereby create hybrid, liminal, transgressive figures. The aim is to evoke contradictory feelings such as horror, disgust, amusement and laughter to express issues pertaining to that which is estranged and unresolved. Such issues arise from the objectification and restriction of the female body by men in contemporary Western society. BIO Thelma van Rensburg was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1969. She has studied and traveled extensively. She always had an interest in art, but did not pursue it as a career until 2004. She has a B.A Hons. Degree in Physical Education and Psychology. In 2004 she decided to study art full time and received her B.Tech/Honours degree in 2007 and majored in Printmaking and Painting. She has participated in many group exhibitions in South Africa and has been published in national and international books and magazines. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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