SCREAMING HALLELUJAH, Cameron Platter at Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco

Cameron Platter
SCREAMING HALLELUJAH
Ever Gold [Projects]
1275 Minnesota Street Suite 105, San Francisco, CA 94107
April 8 – May 18, 2017
Reception: April 8, 6-9 pm

April 8, Ever Gold [Projects] opens SCREAMING HALLELUJAH, an exhibition of new work by South African artist Cameron Platter including video, work on paper, and sculpture.

Untitled, 2016. Charcoal on paper, 90 x 65 centimeters. Courtesy of Ever Gold [Projects].

Untitled, 2016. Charcoal on paper, 90 x 64 centimeters. Courtesy of Ever Gold [Projects].

Untitled, 2016. Charcoal on paper, 60 x 42 centimeters. Courtesy of Ever Gold [Projects].

Press Release:

Wrong

Come here

I see dead people

Hennessey

Give it to me

I’ll hide it

breathe

swimsuits

dippin low

chillin in the shade and shit

stop where the sun sets

ass slow

Matrix

Bark Bark Chicken

Chicken

slow ass

toss

chips

get naked

chicken

punch

club to the stretch

stretch to the Hotel

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhh ohhhhhh ohhhhhhhh

Closer (ohhhh)

(work it)

dance dance dance

Sweat is dripping

Cameron Platter was born in 1978, Johannesburg.

Recent exhibitions include U-SAVED-ME, Depart Foundation, Los Angeles; 2015 Artist in Residence at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA); ‘Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa’, SFMOMA, San Francisco; ‘Imaginary Fact, Contemporary South African Art and the Archive’, 55th Venice Biennale; ‘De Leur Temps’, Musee des Beaux-arts de Nantes; ‘Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now’, MoMA, New York; ‘Les Rencontres Internationales’, Palais de Tokyo (2014) and The Centre Georges Pomidou (2010), Paris; Le Biennale de Dakar 2010, Dakar, Senegal; ‘Coca- Colonization’, Marte Museum, El Salvador; and ‘Absent Heroes’, Iziko South African National Gallery.

His work appears in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York.

His work has been featured in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Vice Magazine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, The BBC, Utflukt, Art South Africa, Protocollum, and Artforum.

He lives and works in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

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