An Incident

An Incident shows the style and technique for which Schütz became well known: his use of highly worked, sanded and meticulously carved jelutong wood.

The soft and fleshy texture of this wood, originally brought in to South Africa from Indonesia, lends both a realism and a sinister ANTHROPOMORPHIC quality to his work.

This domestic TABLEAU, with its vertiginous dimensions and mysterious details suggesting a suburban crime scene, is one Schütz returned to in different ways throughout his career, transforming scenes of South African domesticity into something more threatening. 

Artwork courtesy of Wits Art Museum.