Clive van den BergAquifer VI (Caldera), 2025
Oil on canvas
Work: 200 x 240 x 3.5 cm (78.7 x 94.5 x 1.4 in.)
With ‘Aquifer VI (Caldera)’, Clive van den Berg continues his long-standing exploration of the underground as both a physical and psychological site. Rooted in personal memory yet reaching into the broader terrain of South African history, the work evokes an unseen world shaped by excavation, displacement, and forgetting. The aquifer, in this context, becomes a potent metaphor for the submerged narratives that lie beneath the surface – those shaped by personal inheritance, colonial extraction, and ecological disregard.
