A selection of works from
Trauma traces // The haunting of the never recovered
by
THELMA VAN RENSBURG
13 March 2020
Griselda Pollock describes trauma as an event or events that are repressed thus forsaken. Because of this veiled repression the event becomes traumatic and tormenting:
"I do not know that they hurt, nor where they hurt because I have no memory of them, for they are out of my time and space."
She states that: "trauma . is a perpetual present, resilient in its persistent and timeless inhabitation of a subject who does not and cannot know it. It happened but I do not know it - that it happened or what it was that happened, the eventless event unremembered.
Yet this happening is not in the past, since it knows no release from its perpetual present because it is not yet known, was never known hence never forgotten, and thus not yet remembered."
Thelma was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1969. She has a B.A Honours degree in Physical education and Psychology. She received a B.Tech degree in Fine Arts at Tshwane University of Technology in 2007. In 2016 she completed a Masters of Arts degree at the University of Pretoria, focusing on feminism and the male gaze.
Thelma's work has been exhibited in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town among others. She participated in eight solo exhibitions in South Africa and numerous group exhibitions across the country.
Thelma van Rensburg
"Listening for knowing what she knew she slipped away"
Collage and thread on paper
21cm x 14cm
Unframed
R 420
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Thelma van Rensburg
"Still she could feel nothing; the inner emptiness was complete"
Collage ink and thread on paper
33cm x 39cm
Unframed
R 1 250
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Thelma van Rensburg
"How did you come to be locked in here V"
Image transfer and oil on block-mounted board
20cm x 20cm
R 1 090
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Thelma van Rensburg
"The eventless event unremembered"
Image transfer, ink and oil on block-mounted board
30.5cm x 23cm
R 1 250
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Thelma van Rensburg
"Underneath that cloak was a girl"
Ink, thread and collage on handmade paper
29.5cm x 40cm
Unframed
R 1 000
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Thelma van Rensburg
"In a desperate attempt to prevent the truth from being discovered"
Ink, thread and collage on handmade paper
29cm x 41.5cm
Unframed
R 1 000
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Thelma van Rensburg
"Trauma traces: Encapsulated out of sight, that is captured inside"
Two Ink and watercolour figure paintings on paper - cut and weaved
50cm x 50cm
Unframed
R 3 340
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Thelma van Rensburg
"The haunting of the never recovered pieces"
Ink and thread on torn paper
124cm x 81cm
Unframed
R 5 840
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