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Artworks
Cassian Robbertze South African, b. 1997
Chantress, 2025Bronze23 x 50 x 56cmEdition 1 of 9Copyright The ArtistThe Chantress presents a reclining female figure poised across fractured tiles, her body at rest yet inwardly engaged. Her gaze falls gently downward, suggesting contemplation rather than performance. She does...The Chantress presents a reclining female figure poised across fractured tiles, her body at rest yet inwardly engaged. Her gaze falls gently downward, suggesting contemplation rather than performance. She does not address the viewer; instead, she exists fully within her own moment.
Situated within a speculative, post-technological landscape, the figure offers a glimpse of the human inhabitants who persist after the collapse of advanced systems. Of noble lineage, she carries a quiet authority, one that is neither declared nor imposed, but inherent. Her presence is calm, grounded, and self-contained.
The absence of clothing removes the figure from any fixed historical or cultural moment, allowing her to exist outside of time. Rather than defining her, the body becomes a neutral ground through which presence, posture, and interiority are expressed. This decision resists specificity in favour of universality, positioning her not as an individual bound to a known era, but as part of an emergent mythology.
The broken tiles beneath her subtly echo a world in fragmentation, remnants of a structure that once was, now repurposed as the ground for a quieter, more introspective existence. Within this setting, The Chantress becomes less a figure of action and more a figure of being: a moment of stillness that gestures toward the rhythms of life within this reimagined world.
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