_{Murmur.Silence.Touch by Jenna Burchell, seen from the entrance to the
Rainforest Project Room in the garden of the Gordart Gallery, Melville.}

This installation by Jenna Burchell is one of the first interactive art works that I’ve seen at a commercial gallery in South Africa. Currently on display at the Rainforest Project Room at Gordart Gallery, in Melville.  Entitled Murmur. Silence. Touch, Burchell describes it in these words:

Through building spaces that illustrate the mental "inscape" of individuals, I aim to pull down the barriers of traditional portraiture and search for new ways to portray the deeper existential core of people. In doing this the voice of the sitter is freed and a dialogue with the viewer is brought to life.

This interchange is created through computer controlled, interactive objects stripped down with bereft aesthetics, parodying the hard edged technology with organic beauty. While surrounded by such a flux the viewer can find in their mind the faces and lives of the sitters.

_{Robin Kelly interacting with Murmur.Silence.Touch by Jenn Burchell.}

_{Robin Kelly interacting with Murmur.Silence.Touch by Jenna Burchell}.