| Fire Walker | |
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| Artist | William Kentridge andGerhard Marx |
| Completion date | 2009 |
| Dimensions | 11 m (430 in) |
| Location | Johannesburg |
| Coordinates | 26°11′57.88″S28°2′16.48″E / 26.1994111°S 28.0379111°E /-26.1994111; 28.0379111 |
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Fire Walker is a public art sculpture in South Africa,Johannesburg in the inner city. The piece is located on Sauer and Simmonds Street, off the Queen Elizabeth Bridge. The sculpture represents a woman carrying abrazier on her head in commemoration of the activity which took place in the area in recent years, when ladies would prepare and sell their fires to others preparing food in the surrounding areas.
Designed byWilliam Kentridge andGerhard Marx, the 10-metre-tall (33 ft) sculpture was constructed of fragmented steel pieces to create the feeling of the figure disintegrating or becoming reassembled, depending on the angle from which it is viewed, hinting at the fragility of spaces and the people who pass through them.
Fire Walker is one of many pieces found amongstPublic Art in Johannesburg.
26°11′58″S28°02′16″E / 26.19941°S 28.03791°E /-26.19941; 28.03791
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