ARTIST PROFILE
- South Africa (b. 1985 in Pretoria)
- Currently in London, United Kingdom.
- Nelmarie du Preez is a South African artist, performing multiple roles as computer programmer/videographer/composer/performance artist. Her practice engages with questions surrounding socio-political identity stemming from the self-other relation.
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Coming Soon | 2014
'Coming Soon' (2014). Dual-channel video installation. Duration: 5'30". Drawing on my own experience of the politics of segregation (while living in Pretoria and London) Coming Soon presents a science-fictional cinematic ‘trailer’ for an anticipated occupation. An imaginary gated society segregated from the post-apartheid/post-colonial world, morphs into a cult-like state where power and privilege begins to unravel. The inhabitants are suspended in a constant state of paranoia and fear of an impending threat of violence and the infiltration of ‘the other’. The split between the screens (reminiscent of a gate or a border) is often broken and at other times suspended – the narrative is never resolved and the line that is drawn only begins to blur. The unsettling is coming… soon.