Amy Ayanda Studios| TELL ME WHAT YOU WOULD MISS

Filter
Shopping Options
Price
R
-
Height
cm
-
Width
cm
-
Amy Ayanda Studios| TELL ME WHAT YOU WOULD MISS

Amy Ayanda Studios is pleased to present at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair 2024.

Amy Ayanda Lester’s work is an abstract exploration into personal and collective loss within the context of South Africa's history.

The Group Areas Act of 1955 evicted thousands of people from their homes in Cape Town and South Africa. The artist’s father, aunt, uncle and grandparents were evicted from their flower farm in Constantia, Strawberry Lane. They moved to Grassy Park, a designated ‘coloured’ area on the ‘Cape Flats’.

Her use of bold colours and impulsive mark-making explore the intricate layers of memory and displacement. Transparent and solid flower motifs are layered; ghostly silhouettes of flower beds and shrubs are abstract and loose, depicting the inability to contain and fully apprehend grief and loss. This is the artist's process of engaging with what is seen and unseen when we experience loss.

Through her father’s recollections, Amy explores the emotional landscape of displacement, seeking to better understand vanished places and communities.

“My father would tell us stories of the verdant pastures, the flowers up in the attic in galvanised buckets for the flower sellers to collect in the mornings. He would then go on to tell us the journey they made at night to their new makeshift dwellings in Grassy Park. It was the middle of winter, and there were no floors or streetlights. The loss my family felt isn’t quite acknowledged and for the most part they just got on with their lives in order to survive. There wasn’t enough space for them to fully grieve; in the same breath it is so difficult to remember. I am interested in the echoes of historical trauma on contemporary urban topographies. Our history remains unclear."

Moreover, having lost her mother to terminal illness the artist explores her own experience of grief and the shapes that it takes over time. She remembers details of her mother to feel connected to her memory. Some pieces explore how her mothers body changed over time as the disease took over and how the memory of her voice is a distinct memory she holds tenderly.

“I tell stories to my daughter about her, my sons ask questions about her photo on the wall. Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.”

The artist invites the viewer to experience catharsis and communion and confront our stories' inherent fragility and beauty.

This show runs from 22 - 26 May 2024.

Read More


Filter
Set Ascending Direction

34 Items

per page
  1. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Toward Silence
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,820.00 ex. vat
  2. Amy Ayanda Lester
    A Conversation between mothers 06
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,000.00 ex. vat
  3. Amy Ayanda Lester
    A Conversation between mothers 05
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,000.00 ex. vat
  4. Amy Ayanda Lester
    A Conversation between mothers 04
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,000.00 ex. vat
  5. Amy Ayanda Lester
    A Conversation between mothers 03
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,000.00 ex. vat
  6. Amy Ayanda Lester
    A Conversation between mothers 02
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,000.00 ex. vat
  7. Amy Ayanda Lester
    A Conversation between mothers 01
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,000.00 ex. vat
  8. Amy Ayanda Lester
    A Mothers Love
    Rating:
    0%
    R 6,000.00 ex. vat
  9. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Fire of it's mouth
    Rating:
    0%
    R 11,500.00 ex. vat
  10. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Real stories take time
    Rating:
    0%
    R 11,500.00 ex. vat
  11. Amy Ayanda Lester
    I'm afraid I have forgotten
    Rating:
    0%
    R 11,500.00 ex. vat
  12. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Ma Lester
    Rating:
    0%
    R 6,000.00 ex. vat
  13. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Memorial
    Rating:
    0%
    R 5,600.00 ex. vat
  14. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Perhaps this is about our wounds
    Rating:
    0%
    R 5,600.00 ex. vat
  15. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Depending on where you look
    Rating:
    0%
    R 22,000.00 ex. vat
  16. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Flutter
    Rating:
    0%
    R 3,900.00 ex. vat
  17. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Hum
    Rating:
    0%
    R 6,000.00 ex. vat
  18. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Tell me the story, again
    Rating:
    0%
    Call for Price
  19. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Collection at first light
    Rating:
    0%
    R 6,000.00 ex. vat
  20. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Wilting
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,820.00 ex. vat
  21. Amy Ayanda Lester
    A tender thing
    Rating:
    0%
    R 6,000.00 ex. vat
  22. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Difficult guest
    Rating:
    0%
    R 6,000.00 ex. vat
  23. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Poetry of a Shadow
    Rating:
    0%
    R 6,000.00 ex. vat
  24. Amy Ayanda Lester
    All the flowers, bending towards me
    Rating:
    0%
    R 6,000.00 ex. vat
  25. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Against your own bones
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,820.00 ex. vat
  26. Amy Ayanda Lester
    My Mother’s voice
    Rating:
    0%
    R 6,000.00 ex. vat
  27. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Dancing Little Light
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,820.00 ex. vat
  28. Amy Ayanda Lester
    A slow prayer
    Rating:
    0%
    R 4,820.00 ex. vat
  29. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Into the River
    Rating:
    0%
    R 9,000.00 ex. vat
  30. Amy Ayanda Lester
    When I was a child
    Rating:
    0%
    R 7,400.00 ex. vat
  31. Amy Ayanda Lester
    Usual Half Miracle
    Rating:
    0%
    R 9,000.00 ex. vat
  32. Amy Ayanda Lester
    All that glorious, temporary stuff
    Rating:
    0%
    R 7,400.00 ex. vat
  33. Amy Ayanda Lester
    My Mothers Body
    Rating:
    0%
Filter
Set Ascending Direction

34 Items

per page