Kruger Rand turns 50
https://www.breinstorm.co.za/krugerrand-events-berlin The Kruger rand turns 50 in 2017. To mark this 6 artists have been commissioned to make an art work for a Money Fair in Berlin later this year. I was fortunate to be one of the selected artists. Each artist has been given a topic, each topic a remarkable event which occurred during the past 50 years. The topic given to me was the tearing down of the Berlin wall. Each art work will be installed in a niche as in the diagram above. I want to make yarn by tearing [up] the wall, and knit an art work out of this yarn which embodies the craziness which created the wall, the process of removing [unpicking] those socio/political structures and the new spaces that have been created. My starting point was to photograph a segment of the Berlin wall which stands as a monument in St Georges Mall, in the centre of Cape Town, where I am based. This segment was given to Cape Town as a monument to mark the state