DAN HALTER

PRESS

Z$100 Trillion (2017)
Large woven prints of Z$100 trillion

US$1 (2017)
Large woven prints of filthy US$1 from Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe (red) (2016)
Hand-woven archival ink-jet prints
80 x 120 cm

President Robert Mugabe’s Signature (2017)
Matchsticks and US Dollars

Monochrome Till Receipt (Black) (2005)
Archival inkjet print of till receipt from Zimbabwean supermarket of only black items
29.9 x 7.54 cm

Monochrome Till Receipt (White) (2005)
Archival inkjet print of till receipt from Zimbabwean supermarket of only white items
58.4 x 7.54 cm

Samizdat (2011)
Page from The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, in theory.
Woven inkjet archival prints on acid-free paper
28 x 19 cm

Plenty sits Still, Hunger is a Wanderer (2014)
Hand-woven archival ink-jet prints
110 × 150 cm

Google Landscape Artifact (2015)
Hand-woven archival ink-jet prints
64 × 90 cm

The Original is Unfaithful to the Translation (2015)
Hand-woven archival ink-jet prints
64 × 90 cm

Zimbabwe Will Never Be A Colony Again (2016)
Embroidered Zanu PF textile 1
15 x 117 cm

Z$5,508,918 (2017)
Map of Zimbabwean farming regions woven with a progression of shredded Zimbabwean bank notes that amount to Z$5,508,918
82 x 89 cm

Z$550,809 2017
Map of Zimbabwean farming regions woven with a progression of shredded Zimbabwean bank notes that amount to Z$550,809
82 x 89 cm

Dillon + Lee is pleased to announce “Mafuta Farm,” our first solo exhibition with Zimbabwean artist Dan Halter.

Dan Halter is informed by his position as a Zimbabwean currently living in South Africa. His work deals with his sense of dislocated national identity, human migration and the dark humor of present realities in Southern Africa. This is largely a backlash due to a history of oppression that continues to manifest today.

Halter uses ubiquitous materials and engage with local popular visual strategies as a form of expression. His work often exploits the language of craft and curio in a conceptual art context. He explores various techniques of fabrication, and this frequently involves collaboration. For the last four years Dan Halter has worked with Bienco Ikete, a refugee from the DRC. Together they have organized a way of weaving paper artworks.

Dan Halter was born in Zimbabwe in 1977. In 2001 he graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BFA. His solo exhibitions include Take Me to Your Leader 2006 (João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town), Never say Never 2008 (Derbylius Gallery, Milan), Double Entry 2010, The Truth Lies Here 2012 and The Original is Unfaithful to The Translation 2015 (Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town). Group shows include the 16th and 17th VideoBrasil (São Paulo) in 2007 and 2011, the 10th Havana Biennale in 2009, the Dakar Biennale in 2010 and Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. He has been an artist in residence in Zürich, Rio de Janeiro, Dufftown in Scotland and Turin, Italy.