17 september
CAMP ARTICLE
Tou Scene loft / Kl 12.00-16.00

Hema, by Lerato Shadi
5 min: 26 sec, 2007

Hema (or Six hours of out-breath captured in 792 balloons) takes a public space as its starting point. The work is based on footage of a performance staged by Shadi at the offices of the advertising agency Ogilvy in Cape Town. She relates the choice of context to the nature of the modern working environment, where our primary needs of proper breathing and physical posture are too easily forgotten. For the performance, the artist spent exactly six hours seated on the staircase in the centre of the building, exhaling every single breath into balloons.

Lerato Shadi is a South African visual/performance artist and currently lives and works in Johannesburg. She holds a BFA from the University of Johannesburg and has exhibited extensively over the past two years. She lives and works in Johannesburg