Object
Lawn 1
Lawn 1
Lungiswa Gqunta presents the lawn as a dangerous landscape of rough shards of glass, at odds with the suburban garden associations of leisure.
In the townships of South Africa, no one has a lawn and this green expanse stands for suburban privilege. Gqunta references the ad hoc security fencing made by many South Africans using broken glass embedded in concrete, as well as the use of bottles and petrol in "Molotov cocktails" used in protest action. Gqunta’s lawn is a cutting criticism of inaction to acknowledge and resolve land disputes.- Maker
- Lungiswa Gqunta
- Title
- Lawn 1
- Dating
- 2017
- Object type
- installatie
- Object number
- 35530/001-005
- Collection
- beeldende kunst 1850 - heden
- Technique
- hout, 4000 gebroken Coca Cola-flesjes, benzine, inkt
- Dimensions
- Acquisition
- aankoop met steun van het Mondriaan Fonds (2021)
- Inscriptions and marks
- :
- Rights
- Centraal Museum Utrecht / foto Eddo Hartmann
- Documentation
- Hoe tegenstellingen tot nieuwe kennis en inzichten kunnen leiden, Japke van Uffelen, (Kunstzone, Aflevering: 4, november 2025), p. 36-39
- High Ambition. Reflections on European projects at the intersection of culture, climate emergency and urban context, Agnieszka Smigiel, Francesca Pajno, (arte e spazio pubblico, 2023), p. 338-345
- Collecting contemporary art in The Netherlands: Research into the collecting policies and acquisition motivations of museums of contemporary art in The Netherlands. [scriptie], Nicky Rijks, Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, 2022), 71 p.
- On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation, Foreword Erik A. de Jong; Laurie Cluitmans, Arent Boon, Eva Burgering (ed), with contributions by Maria Barnas, Jonny Bruce, Laurie Cluitmans ... [et al.], Valiz (Amsterdam, 2021) Centraal Museum (Utrecht, 2021), 240 p.