Andries Botha
1993
all the stories of abuse and violation are stored with individuals.
Andries Botha's (1952) career as a sculptor has been marked by his truly innovative use of traditional African materials and methods to make large-scale pieces, which are at once very bewildering yet strike a deep cultural chord. In 1984, Botha's exhibition Human Structures consisted of a series of works created from thatching, wattle and wax. It was from this point onwards that Botha's work took on its specific characteristics - referencing inherited practices and locally symbolic materials, such as tyres and telephone wire, the works mesh Western and African culture. I have always tried to use my work as a sort of visual testimony to the violation of the state. One of the functions of the intellectual is to create within their work a sort of archive of memory where the social discourses or the nation is plotted.
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