15 Kg, 2016-ongoing
15 Kg
2016, acrylic, oil, fire, dust and spray paint on canvas, 6 canvases, 140x200cm each, suitcase
Studio view, Rome
2016, acrylic, oil, fire, dust and spray paint on canvas, 6 canvases, 140x200cm each, suitcase
Studio view, Rome
15 Kg, is an ongoing series of un-stretched foldable paintings that have been shipped in suitcases and exhibited between London, Italy and Cape Town.
The series' title refers to the maximum weight to be carried on low-cost airlines such as Ryanair. The paintings are visual enquiries about the connections between freedom, gesture and mental structures, outcome of an ongoing research on late-capitalist rituals and obsessions about food, body, spirituality, accumulation, consumption and waste. Painted on both sides, the canvases retain the marks of a process of stretching, un-stretching, folding and burning as well as the traces of their displacement.
The series' title refers to the maximum weight to be carried on low-cost airlines such as Ryanair. The paintings are visual enquiries about the connections between freedom, gesture and mental structures, outcome of an ongoing research on late-capitalist rituals and obsessions about food, body, spirituality, accumulation, consumption and waste. Painted on both sides, the canvases retain the marks of a process of stretching, un-stretching, folding and burning as well as the traces of their displacement.
15 Kg
2018, installation view, Everard Read - Circa, Cape Town
2018, installation view, Everard Read - Circa, Cape Town