CAMERON PLATTER, SA
Pussy Dick, 2014.
About:
Make a difference, 2013.
Cameron Platter was born in 1978 in Johannesburg; he lives and works outside of Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. He makes stories, pictures, and objects that are documents of contemporary morality; exploring a reality stranger than fiction, through fantasy, satire, and subculture, using themes appropriated from the universal concerns of sex, love, violence, beauty, advertising, food, battle scenes, pornography, writing, politics, religion, crime, dancing, lust, greed, things falling apart, and spaceships. 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.
Landscape MMD, 2013.
Platter has recently participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2011); Haus Der Kultur, Berlin (2011); Marte Musuem, El Salvador (2011); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2010); and Biennial of Contemporary Art, Dakar, Senegal (2010). Solo exhibitions have taken place at Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2012); WHATIFTHEWORLD / GALLERY, Cape Town (2011 and 2010); Volta NY (2010); and KZNSA Gallery, Durban (2008). His work appears in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York; FRAC Centre, Orleans, France; and Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Stations, 2014.
