SAMKELO MATOTI
July 22, 1994

 

Matoti, a second year student at the Technikon, was a regular at the FLAT. His home was in the Transkei and thus he was living in student residence on campus. He approached us at the FLAT with the proposal: instead of returning home during the July holiday month when the residence was normally closed, he asked if he could stay with us and work at the sculpture department towards an exhibition at the FLAT. We agreed.
The work that he exhibited was an installation of steel triangles, cubes and pyramids. Like geometric drawings, these shapes were arranged to form a minimal composition on the wall. These sculptures then became the background for a large projected image of the artist.

SAMKELO MATOTI, installation, 1994