Corporeality and Materiality

Surfacing in all I’ve done is a bodyness, along with ideas of adaptation and transformation, fragility and violence, protection and oppression. I often use simple or base materials such as bubblegum, blood or plastics, and other by products of the rituals of our everyday lives. This explores, amongst other things, psychological adaptation, social ritual, suggestions of alienness.

‘Our own bodies are always present, the closest of all alien phenomena.’*

If necessary, I make use of my own body in performative gestures, documenting the actions through photos, audio, or leaving residue or traces in an exhibition space or on paper.

The way an artwork can bring materials together is powerful. Found objects are already full of significance, full of meaning acquired in everyday life and once modified, can alter or challenge our perception of something familiar.

I’ve come to believe we have one story to tell and keep finding different ways of telling it. I’m a South African artist, living and working near Cape Town.