Kieron Jina
Residency 25 November–7 December 2019
Photographic ephemera from Kieron Jina’s residency at A4. The artist stands against a backdrop of blue sky with one hand raised holding an object resembling a whip.
Image courtesy of Kieron Jina.
Title Kieron Jina Dates 25 November–7 December 2019 Location Top Floor Tagline Kieron Jina reflects on his practice and engages the public through performance. Credits

Photographs:
Claudia Monyamane
Kieron Jina
Gisela Gurtler

Performance photographs:
Alexis Shakalulu Strimenos

Kieron Jina shares fragments and textures, reflecting on his artistic practice and looking ahead to new projects.

While in residence, Jina performs Catching Feelings, Not Flights, on 16 December – 'Day of Reconciliation' in South Africa, and a public holiday. Kieron Jina’s body is painted in geometric patterns. He walks from Camps Bay to Clifton beaches in Cape Town with a large canvas painted with the following question:

It's hunting season in Cape Town...
Have you seen my European husband?

Catching Feelings, not Flights asks after the notion of the exotic. Who or what is perceived to be exotic? And why?

Jina's work is about accessibility, vulnerability, exoticism, sex trade, pink money, afro-futurisms, inequalities of gender, sexuality, race, and economy. Identifying as a queer South African artist, Jina is interested in communicating the complexity of people in relation to one another, and to place and space, by way of elements which suggest connections and their resulting tensions.

Photographic ephemera from Kieron Jina’s residency at A4 that consists of a portrait of the artist against a black background.
Photographic ephemera from Kieron Jina’s residency at A4 that depicts the artist in costume and face paint against a backdrop of construction materials.
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