AVOID
Exhibition 9 February–13 April 2018
Installation photograph from Unathi Mkonto’s interactive installation ‘AVOID’ on A4’s ground floor. Detachable strips of velcro line the white walls and hang from ceiling bars where participants can re-configure them around the space.
Installation view: Unathi Mkonto’s AVOID, February 9, 2018–April 13, 2018. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title AVOID Dates 9 February–13 April 2018 Location Reading Room Tagline An interactive installation by artist in residence Unathi Mkonto. Credits

Artist:
Unathi Mkonto

Production:
francis burger

AVOID emerges from material experiments conducted by Unathi Mkonto during his residency at A4 (January 29–February 28, 2018). Exploring ways of bringing his drawing practice into three dimensions while concurrently manipulating these same materials towards wearable structures, Mkonto offers an interactive installation in A4's Reading Room.

Constituted by strips of velcro, participants are encouraged to re-configure the space by disconnecting and reconnecting these wall-mounted and hanging lines.

The residency and the resulting installation form part of More for Less, the concurrent exhibition in A4's Gallery.

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A4's Reading Room is an adaptable space attached to A4's Library and Archive. Intended to solve for form depending on its required function, it as at once a book-ish environment for reading and contemplation and a place to unpack artists' archives. The Reading Room's inter-leading doors become walls when locked to create a stand-alone spacial research studio that hosts residents and practices site-specific work that most-often is connected to packing and unpacking projects as a form of research.

Process photograph from Unathi Mkonto’s residency on A4’s top floor. Multiple overlapping charcoal and pen drawings on a sheet of paper depict potential artworks and exhibition layouts.
Process: Unathi Mkonto’s AVOID, February 9, 2018–April 13, 2018. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Process photograph from Unathi Mkonto’s interactive installation ‘AVOID’ on A4’s ground floor. At the back, strips of black velcro are arranged along the white wall. At the front, Mkonto stands looking downward.
Process: Unathi Mkonto’s Wearables, February 24, 2018. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
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