Anonymous
asks the internet at 3:00 AM, “How do I get up if I fall?”
To fall. A word akin to the utterance ‘um’. A definition of grey areas. The ability to fall, no choice but to fall, the misstep, the gravitational pull, the awareness of weight, the clumsiness of the body, the need to return to the upright position. The word fall appears in various forms in the English language. In many of these lie the essence of an arrival: the weighted greeting of a baby growing in a belly; the tumbling into infatuation; the slip between awake and asleep. We fall into all of these things. But where are we meant to settle? It may be that settling is not the point.
Hannah-Rose Fleishman is a South African artist based in Cape Town. She graduated with distinction from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2022, majoring in photography and sculpture. Her work revolves around the conceptual idea of falling, an inquiry that she believes is also an inquiry into the state of being. Fleishman engages with an ongoing investigation into the human desire to be human. Into the belly-aching pain of being. Into the silliness of asking questions to the internet void to try and crack the code. Questions we all ask. Uncertainties of how to be. How do I walk, kiss, fall in a way that seems as if I have needed no help?
Fleishman’s work, being process and research based, spans various mediums with a focus on new media and installation art. Digitality becomes a predominant focus area in her work, explored as space that allows for the reorganising of spatial ordering.
To fall. A word akin to the utterance ‘um’. A definition of grey areas. The ability to fall, no choice but to fall, the misstep, the gravitational pull, the awareness of weight, the clumsiness of the body, the need to return to the upright position. The word fall appears in various forms in the English language. In many of these lie the essence of an arrival: the weighted greeting of a baby growing in a belly; the tumbling into infatuation; the slip between awake and asleep. We fall into all of these things. But where are we meant to settle? It may be that settling is not the point.
Hannah-Rose Fleishman is a South African artist based in Cape Town. She graduated with distinction from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2022, majoring in photography and sculpture. Her work revolves around the conceptual idea of falling, an inquiry that she believes is also an inquiry into the state of being. Fleishman engages with an ongoing investigation into the human desire to be human. Into the belly-aching pain of being. Into the silliness of asking questions to the internet void to try and crack the code. Questions we all ask. Uncertainties of how to be. How do I walk, kiss, fall in a way that seems as if I have needed no help?
Fleishman’s work, being process and research based, spans various mediums with a focus on new media and installation art. Digitality becomes a predominant focus area in her work, explored as space that allows for the reorganising of spatial ordering.