Olivia Pintér (b. 2000) is a Johannesburg based painter working primarily in abstraction. She first came to work with abstraction after spending time painting landscapes, particularly gold mining tailings dams in and around Johannesburg, and through the constant repetition of these paintings, she found them becoming more abstract. This began to interest her in terms of trying to contribute “something that was that was representational but in a way that wasn’t giving the viewer a direct entry point into what I was making”. Her practice also makes use of writing, and through it she explores the relationship between text and image, focusing on how these two modalities may marry, extend, and limit each other.
