This extensive collection of Lionel Smit's artworks opens with the Uitstalling gallery in Genk, Belgium on 17th July 2020.
To reposition implies a movement from one location to another, and it speaks of some adjustment or alteration that, be it major or minor, caused something or some idea to travel and shift. Lionel Smit’s Reposition features a body of work that explores this theme by engaging with physical and ideological forms of relocation.
Every country has its own sense of identity with unique cultures and viewpoints. How South Africans view their local art will be different from how Europeans view it, as there is a sub-context of knowing the history, having a sense of familiarity, and cultural awareness. So, in essence, you can say that one’s interpretation of a body of work changes considering where from where it is viewed. With a different viewpoint, the work changes.
