This living room from the past, allowed to slip under the current, with little resistance from anybody around. We are allowing it to disappear unceremoniously, even melodramatically. It is both comical but also unnerving as it speaks to the losing of memories and histories, and the instability and temporality of that which we thought was fixed.

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Luan Nel received a fine art degree and Higher Degree in Education from Wits. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions, Nel won the Judges Prize in the 1994 Sasol New Signatures competition. In 1998 and 1999 he participated in an artist’s residency at The Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and a further residency at the Dutch Institute in Rome. Nel’s work is included in many private and group collections, including the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the SABC, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Sasol, Hollard and KPMG.

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