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.