Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

A video made up of a collage of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome?s sermon on the ?Power of Thoughts? as well as use sources such penis extension advertisements, visionary fast food chicken outlets, sex websites, eternal happiness, instant cash, waterfalls, abdominal machines, life solutions international, dancing dolphins, mass builder, fireworks, slogans, sub-tropical bondage, and celestial landscapes; all directed in my crude, minimalist filmic technique. The video should be viewed as an expanded, absurdist, collage; part documentary and part commentary.

Cameron Platter was born in 1978, Johannesburg. Recent exhibitions include ?Imaginary Fact, Contemporary South African Art and the Archive?, 55th Venice Biennale; ?Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now,? Museum of Modern Art, New York; Le Biennale de Dakar 2010, Dakar, Senegal; ?Coca- Colonization,? Marte Museum, El Salvador; and ?Absent Heroes,? Iziko South African National Gallery. Platter fills the ordinary and marginal, with incendiary new meaning. Working from everyday experience with subjects overlooked or considered delinquent, sordid and lowbrow, he reconnoiters notions and concepts on the outside fringes of South Africa?s popular culture. His work appears in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York; The FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France; and the Iziko South African National Gallery. His work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vice Magazine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Artforum, and Art South Africa.