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Wim Botha produced Mnemonic reconstruction for the group exhibition Personal affects: power and poetics in contemporary South African art in New York, where it was installed at the Museum for African Art. In this life-size installation a self-portrait bust looks over a suspended central element comprising four decaying hyenas running amok on a hexagonal table. The illusion of a room is created by a suspended grid of red stained-glass windows on one side, with imagery of a composite coat-of-arms, as well as etchings by Botha, in distressed frames, leaking water. In addition to subverting the sacred museological practice of climatic control it animates the installation, physically as well as in its possible implications.
A preparatory sketch for the installation is included in the catalogue South African art 1840 - now (December 2004) - click here to view.
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