SOLO EXHIBITION
Stefan Smit's solo exhibition, Curb, often shows the imposing character of the urban environment looming in the background, at times ominous, but often simply vast and impersonal; it is somehow culpable for the tares in the fabric of a once connected human community and at other times, offering us a sense of comfort through familiarity.
The daylight ghosts of passers-by leave only whispered traces in a society where sidewalk etiquette excuses us from human interaction. We are small, self-absorbed universes, messily compacted into individual bodies - branded packages yearning for connection as we slip silently by in the no-man's land of the city-scape.
“I approach my subjects in such a way as to comment and observe how our surroundings are sometimes more familiar to us than the people who inhabit them.”
