Nina Barnett
b. 1983, Johannesburg
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Nina Barnett’s creative practice uses drawings, immersive installations and experimental filmmaking to engage with questions of geography, infrastructure, materiality, and experiential knowledge. Her most recent exhibitions, entitled The Weight in the Air and On Breathing, reflected on radioactivity and mining waste particulate in the post-colonial atmosphere of Johannesburg. She is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD from the University of Johannesburg, with a project titled A Turbid Body, Suspended: Intra-Active Materialities of Water in the Vaal Dam


Nina has an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BFA from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally, most recently in Chicago, New York, Cape Town and Johannesburg.




The series titled Dam Works by Nina Barnett makes use of the material qualities of water, pigment and surface to consider human engineered dam structures. In working through relationships between wet and dry, the making of structural forms through 'holding' the water in place, and shaped erasures,Nina hopes to think through the natures of dam structures themselves, their origins as colonial structures (in South Africa) and their future as climates shift. 









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