Dale Lawrence: Between Lives (2023)

Tickets will be available from 9am, Tuesday 18 February

The screening is free and open to the public with seating limited to 48 people.

This Wednesday (19 February 2025), Dale Lawrence will be screening Between Lives (2023). The film will be accompanied by excerpts from other films and media.

Dale Lawrence is an artist living and working in Cape Town. Through his work, Lawrence seeks moments of intimacy and invention through the disruption of repetitive processes: in craftsmanship and artistic practice, in familiar language and histories, in habitual behaviours and daily rituals. 

Lawrence’s practice combines various media such as text, sculpture, print, performance and installation, frequently blurring lines between them. In creating new works by tearing up others that have gone unsold or recreating Kounellis’ Tragedia Civile (1975) from chip packets, or through his text works, in which the artist extracts phrases from ephemeral sources—including clickbait and news articles, news, advertising, social media, novels, song lyrics and speech transcripts—compiling them into poetic arrangements, Lawrence’s work displays a core focus on the interrelation between language, materiality and gesture.

Afterimage is a film screening programme, funded by the National Arts Council and run by Mitchell Gilbert Messina and Ben Albertyn. Each screening has an artist share a work of theirs alongside some of the short films and reference material that informed it. The programme aims to spotlight artists working with film and video, demystify their making, and reveal the traits they share with works that came before.