Indigenice is the title of the Carol Albertyn Christie’s exhibition of photographic art which opens
in Durban this week.
It’s not a word you’ll find in the dictionary which makes perfect sense, since the work of the award-winning Carte Blanche presenter defies conventional description.
Christie’s vivid, voluptuous photographs overwhelm with intense sensuality and evince the artist’s fascination with erythrina caffra, aka coral tree. Says Christie: ‘I have always thought that the ends of the coral tree, when in bloom, look like florets of flame.” When efforts to capture this fiery essence via conventional means didn’t quite live up to expectation, Christie was inspired to freeze the flower in order to achieve the spectacular results on show at the exhibition.
Indigenice is a three-woman exhibition which also features Leanne Frisinger’s delicately thin abstract three-dimensional paperclay forms and Fahmeeda Omar’s painstakingly hand-coiled
ceramic vessels.
Artisan Contemporary Gallery, 344 Florida Road. Opening 6pm Wednesday April 13. Running
until May 14. Tel: 031 312 4364 / 083 301 5747