Title: Untitled (Pig)
Medium: Smoke on Paper
Unframed: 58cm x 41.7cm
For Victor, the correlation between the choice of medium and the message she wants to communicate are of great importance. She first began to use smoke as a drawing medium in 2005 when she came across people at an HIV soup kitchen in the Eastern Cape. The smoke she used for drawing the portraits of these individuals the medium represented the fragility and vulnerability of her subjects’ lives. Since then, Victor’s subject matter has expanded to include portraits of prisoners awaiting trial, missing persons and animals farmed for food (Warren Editions 2020:1).
“Victor’s intricate pastel and charcoal drawings [are] densely frightening and with horrific meaning. They are also very beautiful and delicate, and if that’s a paradox it’s one that gives the work its meaning” – Chris Roper, M&G, 1998.
