Pop Up Forest Test
2013
Courtesy the artist
Presentation (requires pre-registration via Eventbrite): 1–2:30 p.m.
Break: 2:30–3 p.m.
Workshop (18+, requires pre-registration via Eventbrite): 3–5 p.m.
Inspired by Senses of Time: Video and Film-based Works of Africa, South African artist Stephen Hobbs examines Johannesburg’s transformation through time, from a British fort to an apartheid city to a contemporary African city. A workshop exploring camouflage in the urban landscape follows.
Robben Island Pillbox
2013
Courtesy the artist
Hobbs’s art explores urban grids and decay, abandoned buildings, camouflage, and lost stories. His hometown of Johannesburg is a major focus—its history of segregation, its landscapes of mining waste, and its zones of racial conflict—and the relationships between existing structures, their original function, and their current eroded or overgrown abstraction within the landscape.
Presented in partnership with Smithsonian Libraries
Free and open to the public
