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Wim Legrand

Sat, 05 Dec

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99 Loop Gallery

Wim Legrand (b. 1978) offers a playful take on the paradoxical strangeness of everyday reality, while commenting on our postmodern condition as victims to the barrage of information and news feeds.

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Wim Legrand
Wim Legrand

Time & Location

05 Dec 2020, 11:00 – 23 Jan 2021, 14:00

99 Loop Gallery, 99 Loop St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa

About the Exhibition

The Parafix is a new solo exhibition by Wim Legrand. 

The parafix /’pʌrʌfɪx’/ is an archaic predecessor of the taser, its first documented use appearing in Northern European audio-visual records from the 1980s. In appearance, it resembles the common umbrella: a device consisting of a circular canopy of cloth on a folding metal frame supported by a central rod, used as protection against rain. But in function, the parafix is markedly different. Designed to transfix and temporarily incapacitate objects by emitting blue-light rays, it renders the specimen petrified and dazed in a twilight of uncertain dimensions. The technology is lauded by proponents for its ability to waylay antisocial behaviour, while providing marketing companies with unprecedented access to user data. Critics argue that that the mental health ramifications have not been satisfactorily investigated.

The invention is traditionally attributed to Belgian scientist Napoleon, although some contemporary scholars [1]  argue that IBM first released the…

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