IT’S NOT ABOUT ME:
Ruth Sacks wanted no confusion between her personal artistic vision and the memorial she created
PICTURE COURTESY OF RUTH SACKS
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THIS project was Sacks’s first public commission and has been very different from private commissions, which generally offer greater freedom.
It needed to fit a person and a community and Sacks was at pains to ensure that the piece was of the city and focused on Gool’s achievements for working people, poor people, women and children.
"I feel very much that this is not about me at all, or my artistic vision, it’s very much about how best to serve the people of Cape Town who walk past [the installation], the people of District Six, who are intricately involved in the monument," says Sacks. "I didn’t want to make anything controversial or upsetting."
Sacks recent exhibitions and projects include her participation in the 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Los Lavaderos, Tenerife, in 2006, and the group shows Blank Projects at the Cape Town Biennale in 2006 and Liste 06 with João Ferreira Fine Art at the Young Art Fair in Basel.
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