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Mirrored Futures
Two visions, one world: Cassian Robbertze & Paula Anta, 2 - 30 September 2026

Mirrored Futures: Two visions, one world: Cassian Robbertze & Paula Anta

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Cassian Robbertze, Chantress, 2025

Cassian Robbertze South African, b. 1997

Chantress, 2025
Bronze
23 x 50 x 56cm
Edition 1 of 9
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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...
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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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