--22 October, 2019, Cape Town--Artist
Monique Pelser, in association with guerilla gallery, instigated
the first of a two-part performative public art intervention in Cape Town last weekend at a
traffic overpass, a railway station exit, a bridge underpass, and a freeway offramp.
The sites were carefully chosen as nodal points of transmission – of people, things and
information. The artist made short performative interventions that left behind
temporary artworks in a Cloud Series,
as gestural contributions to a public conversation.
“Clouds are the
transformation of matter – that are in constant flux,” says Pelser. “The clouds
in this work reference the transformation of digital information, movement,
networks and migration.”
A final duo of sites will soon follow to complete the
intervention. Fliers of related limited edition artworks (as above) are this week being distributed along commuter pathways as part of a broader dialogue.
Photographic documentation of the Cloud Series will soon be shared online. Further background context will be published on guerilla gallery's 'Projects' section once the full intervention is complete.
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