Colourful Erasure
Event 10–11 May 2019
Photograph from the ‘Colourful Erasure’ event in A4’s Gallery. On the right, a young participant paints in colour onto the gallery walls, “erasing” the black and white drawings from Dan Perjovschi's ‘Black & White Cape Town Report’ exhibition.
Event: Colourful Erasure, an interaction with Dan Perjovschi’s Black & White Cape Town Report, May 10–11, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title Colourful Erasure Dates 10–11 May 2019 Location Gallery Tagline An interaction with Dan Perjovschi’s Black & White Cape Town Report.

Dan Perjovschi’s projects involve drawing directly onto the walls of institutions around the world. Following the exhibitions, the drawings are erased. This typically involves painting over the drawings and scraping the walls. Perjovschi collects photos of the erasure process – treating it as a component of the greater project – itself concerned with the right to speak freely and a defence against censorship. 

Following Perjovschi’s project at A4, The Black & White Cape Town Report, and in response to his interest in making and unmaking, a workshop was hosted that invited participants to replace or ‘erase’ drawings and text using blocks of colour.

The results were sent to Perjovschi for his archive. 

Photograph from the ‘Colourful Erasure’ event in A4’s Gallery. At the front, a table laden with tubs of variously coloured paints and a ladder. In the middle, a sheet of black plastic sheeting lays along the base of the gallery wall with participants standing on top of it. At the back, the gallery wall features monochrome drawings from Dan Perjovschi’s ‘Black & White Cape Town Report’ exhibition overlain with colourful drawings by participants.
Event: Colourful Erasure, an interaction with Dan Perjovschi’s Black & White Cape Town Report, May 10–11, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Event: Colourful Erasure, an interaction with Dan Perjovschi’s Black & White Cape Town Report, May 10–11, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
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