WILMA CRUISE
WILMA CRUISE, Kom Sit
Bronze and concrete, 95 x 150 x 85 cm
Wilma Cruise is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose work predominantly explores the interface between humans and animals, and existential conditions of muteness; silent, internal battles in the search for meaning. ‘I like to invert the Cartesian question which is not can they talk, but can we listen. The whole drive for me with these works is to equate animal beings with human beings without anthropomorphising them. Anthropomorphising is the ultimate danger when you work with images of animals. I want people to feel what the animal is feeling without making the animal human, or a metaphor, or a cipher for human. It must be in itself, of it itself, that animal.’
Specialists in contemporary art from South Africa. Established in 1913. South African artists are part of the global conversation. We seek to make their voices heard.