“I am living in a time where Contradiction, Truth, Desire, Passion and Anarchist are nothing more than the names of perfumes. I live in an age of digital reproduction where truth no longer exists in an image, where every image can be altered and changed and anybody can be erased from or inserted into history.”

The words of South African artist Kendell Geers are a dark interpretation of the reality of modern life, and start somewhat to explain the violent outbursts that Geers contributes to the world of art as well as a wider existential context.

Haider Ackermann chose two of Geers’ monochrome graphic paintings from the acclaimed series ‘La Sainte Vièrge’ or ‘The Blessed Virgin” for A#3.

Taking such a historical and culturally hallowed subject as the Virgin of Catholicism and representing the deity as a toe-sucking, gratuitously nude and graffiti-esque pen and ink drawing is Geers’ par for the course – he once covered Jesus on the crucifix entirely in packing tape. Enough said.

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