The Cape Town art scene has always been rather lively, where a wide variety of visual art can be seen. Art reflects an interior reality as well as an external one, and the multiple realities that exist in the city are food for the artists looking for inspiration and community. Those who are coming to stay at the hotels in Cape Town , and enjoy the city’s vibrant scene will be surprised and delighted about what’s here.
Local artist Jennifer Lovemore-Reed is one of the citizen-artists in Cape Town who are working to push boundaries and make things happen. She works in a variety of media, too, and has been combining performance with her strong visual works. A recent work, however, was entirely based in performance.
Called ” 45 Minutes as an Object ,” she did the work in Cape Town and in Paris, and made video of both. She lay motionless on a sidewalk, and the crowds reacted. It seems like a simple concept, and in conceptual art that’s key toward unlocking the work’s transformative power. Looking at how people responded on both continents, one could start to make connections and consider ideas of public space, the body, the archetypes of femininity, and also the status of insider-outsider. Provocative work is happening in Cape Town, thanks to the work of visionaries like her.
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