Buchpräsentation mit Masixole Ncevu

In the organizer's words:

sense of space - preposition of place

Masixole Ncevu is an artist whose practice has solid theoretical and conceptual research components. He incorporates various mixed media into his practice such as photography, film, drawings and sound.

This book attempts to explore how people locate themselves vis-a-vis others, objects and things within a time-space continuum. Furthermore, it contextually sheds light on the correlation between space embedded meanings and the sense of place. In this book, the preposition of place takes a closer examination of the relations between objects and things through the lens of meaning reconfiguring moves and interactions in time and space.

The project prepositions of place that emerges as key within this book follows and attends to questions of how people, structures and landscapes spatially affect one another. What relations and meaning emerge and submerge within space - be it natural or artificial? In the process, visual signs, the (re)emergence of infrastructures and contextual speech reshape the building blocks for place making. Through artistic works and lens, the project metaphorically and figuratively express how personal senses from sight, touch and hearing collapse and combine to orient individuals in space and time.

"Through my book I allude to how space fosters and interacts with the social fabric that reflects the spatial immersion and essence of being human. By accessing individual senses, emotions, and thoughts, space and in this case, the park inspires and transforms the concept of place. Probing the photographs alone cannot capture these prepositions as they do not exist in a physical form, but rather encompass and hold together the entities in space. Therefore, accompanying texts will help to draw out the hidden prepositions."