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Preller depicts the old Joburg

Taken from old home movies, these reconstructed images are anything but neutral, despite the deadpan silence of their finely worked surfaces. They are charged with discomfort and displacement brought along by the passage of time. They chronicle ordinary lived moments of individuals, paused and rewound; interrupted narratives, lost stories. Rooted in a specific place and time, they inevitably carry a historical burden, but who can tell exactly what that burden is, or where it resides? It is their very ordinariness which makes them extraordinary.

Her brushwork refuses to interpret, explain or judge, leaving it up to viewers to read in the works, or into them, whatever they find or fail to find. Well known for her use of near monochrome, in City and Suburban Preller turns colour into its own fleeting memory, its immutable loss, a mere suggestion of mood and remembrance, asking no questions and offering no answers.

At the Standard Bank Gallery from 23 March.