[6] She approaches art making in a way that de-stabilizes her own practice and proposes a tenuous and uncertain relationship between the artwork and its defining structures.
In her trademark style, Threat to Civilization 1-3 features PVC sacs of steel rods from past sculptural pieces soaking in water.
Over time, the metal corrodes, leaving the sealed off and yet highly affective sacs at varying stages of decay and color, from yellow to red.
[10] The brain damage show included 13 works (numbered 1-13) of elastic bands spread across the floor of the gallery room, as if a distributed nervous system.
[12] The bands, painted, stretched, ripped, nailed to walls, taut, curled like ribbons, and more, lay mainly flat on the ground.
"[14] This illegible map, obstacle course, or nervous system disrupts the viewer's desire for meaning and relationality, making visible the damage to connection.
[17] Balema's first solo exhibition in the UK, Computer, presented a single sculpture, a massive digital rendering of a carpet, printing in pieces and reformed in a grid.