PRESS RELEASE
LORIENNE LOTZ | Bearing Witness
May 30 – Jun 28, 2025
LORIENNE LOTZ
Bearing Witness
30 May – 28 June 2025
Bearing Witness, a collection of new paintings by South African artist, Lorienne Lotz, speaks to the spaces in between, it speaks to our paradoxes, it speaks to both the tenderness and brutality, and to our humor and terror.
Throughout her artistic practice, Lotz has explored oppression as a central theme, with the absurdity of the human condition forming the broader framework of her work. Her paintings intricately intertwine the political with the personal, reflecting the complexities and contradictions of our existence.
For Lotz, the world around us mirrors the deep shadows within us—the personal struggles we face with the imbalances, duplicities, and forces that shape our nature. As she explains, "The struggle to find equilibrium between opposing forces, whether in the socio-political realm or within myself, becomes the narrative that fuels my work." Ultimately, Lotz acknowledges that there is no escaping our true selves or the ironies that arise from our deepest narratives.
