Water is life. It flows through our bodies and the ecosystems we depend on. It nourishes plants, shapes landscapes, and sustains all living things. Without it, there can be no regeneration, no farming, no future.
Hanien Conradie’s new exhibition at Spier Wine Farm, Water-Verse: Traces of the Traceless (Spore van die Spoorlose), invites us to consider water not only as a resource, but as a presence: fluid, powerful, and memory-bearing.
Over the last decade, Conradie has engaged with rivers, droughts and floods, creating works where water is both medium and teacher.
Through paintings, performance rituals and prayers, she explores how water shapes landscapes and inner-scapes alike, asking us to reflect on our relationship with this most vital element.
“This body of work is a tribute to the spirit of water,” Conradie says. “Its fluidity, its power, its memory, and its uncanny ability as a medium to express human consciousness.”
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