Kendell Geers, South African artist known for his radical and subversive approach, has explored themes of politics, violence and identity through his artistic practice.
In 2000, he/she/it participated in Art to Art, presenting Volterra with the work The Dustbin of History, A reflection on mass tourism in Tuscany.
In 2003, he returned for the’Eighth edition of the project, this time under the pseudonym of Red Sniper, collaborating with the musician Patrick Codenys to create the video installation Rhythm and Chaos. Their work, inspired by the destabilising energy of sound and image, continued Geers' path of questioning structures of power and perception.
Kendell Geers, Born in Leondale, South Africa, into an Afrikaans family during apartheid, he embraced the political struggle from a young age. At 15, he ran away from home to join the anti-apartheid movement and, to avoid compulsory military service, enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand. Here he became an activist and, in 1988, refused to perform military service, opting for exile, first in the UK and then in New York, where he worked with Richard Prince. Returning to South Africa in 1990, he challenged his cultural heritage with provocative works such as Bloody Hell and symbolically changed his birth date to May 1968. With a practice that combines activism and conceptual art, he developed an aesthetic based on materials of conflict such as batons, broken glass, and barbed wire. In 2002, after a sabbatical dedicated to reflection, he presented Sympathy for the Devilat the Palais de Tokyo, reducing the work to a single match entitled The Terrorist’s Apprentice, a testament to their radical and subversive approach to art.
Geers moved to Brussels in 2003
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