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Alastair Whitton
A Foreign Land, 21 January - 25 February 2020

Alastair Whitton: A Foreign Land

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Barnard is pleased to present A Foreign Land by Cape Town based photographer Alastair Whitton.

“My first reaction to these photographs was to shiver. Two sentences came to mind, by I know not whom – ‘Africa is a cold country where the sun always shines’ and another – ‘The touch of the devil is as cold as ice’.” Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam.

“Conceived as anthropological ‘field notes’ situated within Cape Town, Whitton’s project is unreservedly about location. And yet, despite this affirmation of place, the images remain untethered, as though caught always between places, or moments, as ghostings of some other indefinable place and time.” Ashraf Jamal, Cape Town.

Essentially a portrait of Cape Town, a city in flux, this body of work considers, what Alastair Whitton refers to as, ‘the mechanisms of memory and the mapping of geographies’. Through the lens he explores ‘the architecture of time and the poetics and politics of place’. His photographs celebrate the seemingly commonplace and are in effect ‘monuments to the dislocated and overlooked’. Of his creative practice Whitton says, “I understand the process as a form of visual and cultural archaeology; a gathering and structuring of found fragments in an attempt to make sense of place and time while recording personal and collective histories.”

Whitton’s work has been featured in exhibitions at notable museums and institutions in South Africa and abroad including amongst others Foto Museum, Antwerp; Pratt Institute, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; The Center for Book Arts, New York; Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice; Musée National du Mali, Bamako and IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
  • Alastair Whitton, Warning sign, District Six, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Warning sign, District Six, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Tent, Observatory, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Tent, Observatory, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Batman & Zuma, Rondebosch, 2014 - 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Batman & Zuma, Rondebosch, 2014 - 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Coke, Woodstock, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Coke, Woodstock, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Fuel station, Salt River, 2018 - 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Fuel station, Salt River, 2018 - 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Bus shelter, Bonteheuwel, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Bus shelter, Bonteheuwel, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Wagon (Wa), Paarden Eiland, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Wagon (Wa), Paarden Eiland, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Grating, Paarden Eiland, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Grating, Paarden Eiland, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Bus shelter II, Bonteheuwel, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Bus shelter II, Bonteheuwel, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1AP
  • Alastair Whitton, No parking, Woodstock, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    No parking, Woodstock, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Barrier, Rondebosch, 2018 - 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Barrier, Rondebosch, 2018 - 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Interior, Paarden Eiland, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Interior, Paarden Eiland, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Playground, Rondebosch, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Playground, Rondebosch, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Cabinet (Buffel), Rondebosch, 2014 - 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Cabinet (Buffel), Rondebosch, 2014 - 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP +1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Sight screen, Rondebosch, 2018 - 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Sight screen, Rondebosch, 2018 - 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Pool, Rosebank, 2018 - 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Pool, Rosebank, 2018 - 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Playground, Rosebank, 2018 - 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Playground, Rosebank, 2018 - 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Washing line, Rondebosch, 2014 - 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Washing line, Rondebosch, 2014 - 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Window, Observatory, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Window, Observatory, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Wall (Make Art Not War), Woodstock, 2013 - 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Wall (Make Art Not War), Woodstock, 2013 - 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
  • Alastair Whitton, Subway, Observatory, 2019
    Alastair Whitton
    Subway, Observatory, 2019
    Gelatin silver print
    30 x 40 cm (image size)
    Edition: 5 + 1 TP + 1 AP
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