Precious Cargo
Hong Kong, 2017Precious Cargo was a group exhibition by South African multidisciplinary collective, Danger Gevaar Ingozi (DGI), for the inaugural edition of Full Circle Art Africa in Hong Kong.
My contribution to the show was a mixed media series and performance titled: This Is How You Lost Her
I used photography and colour-manipulation to highlight the complicated experience of being an outsider in more ways than one, whilst also feeling at home on the outside.
Oh Jesus
Mixed media on Hanemuhle paper
766 x 990mm
Edition size: 5
Taking Stock
Mixed media on Hanemuhle paper
250 x 250mm
Edition size: 5
Stationed
Mixed media on Hanemuhle paper
500 x 500mm
Edition size: 5
First, if we pause to look around us, we might find ourselves on the periphery of urban environments that were never designed for us in the first place: spaces whose ghosts of spatial planning past still roam corridors, where brutalism runs deeper than architectural aesthetic.
Of Johannesburg
Mixed media on Hanemuhle paper
337 x 460mm
Edition size: 5
About Your Funeral
Mixed media on Hanemuhle paper
500 x 500mm
Edition size: 5
In Case You Were Keeping Score
Mixed media
on Hanemuhle paper
213 x 396mm
Edition size: 5
Many Hands Make Light Work
Mixed media on Hanemuhle paper
500 x 680mm
Edition size: 5
Then, if we stop a little longer, we may feel the deeper tug of a warning bell reminding some of us were never meant to be outside / ‘here’ / moving freely at all.
Still, we may find that ‘outside’ offers a freedom that cannot be found behind closed doors. What then?
Minimum Force
Mixed media on Hanemuhle paper
337 x 460mm
Edition size: 5
The Walkabout
Mixed media on Hanemuhle paper
250 x 250mm
Edition size: 5
The Flip
Mixed media on Hanemuhle paper
500 x 500mm
Edition size: 5