Natalie Paneng’s solo exhibition, Uncanny Valley, opened in June 2024 in the checker board room at The Blue House gallery. Uncanny Valley expands her practice…
Artist: Natalie Paneng
The World Is Your Castle (State Proof II/II)
The World Is Your Castle (State Proof I/II)
The World Is Your Castle (Trial Proof II/II)
The World Is Your Castle (Trial Proof I/II)
Some of these dreams feel like obstacle courses, the decisions you make to save yourself or move further within the dream feel predestined and all you can do is observe and be moved like a pawn on a chess board.
I never knew that the POV within a dream reveals more about the dream itself. In fact, I never realised that I was always seeing the scene and never myself within the landscapes. If I ever see myself in a dream, from the POV of me seeing me, I know the version of me I see is not the current version of me. It’s not just about me being there, it’s about what I am doing there and why.
Workshop collaboration: Natalie PNG in Wonderland
In 2022 David Krut Workshop (DKW) invited Natalie Paneng to collaborate on a series of unique works on paper with printmaker, Sbongiseni Khulu – a…
I have spent a lifetime on TikTok.
The dream about the time I was in a meadow of pink and green foliage and flowers. I was wearing that chessboard dress again and in the sky was a huge flower made of more versions of me and my dress. It was big enough to be a cloud or a spaceship. I held my hand in this position again, holding a single hand-drawn flower. I must have picked it from another meadow, in another dream.
The dream about the time I held a balloon shaped like my head in a sea of heads shaped like mine. It was completely silent, like an internet backroom, of sorts.
