Cameron Platter

IMAGINE

Poem by Cameron Platter

All The People Lobster Scavenger Hyena Predator Alien Cockroach Plastic Creature Toxic Waste Backwards Swimmer Shellfish Allergy Monster CT Scan Luxury Food Poverty Food Hunter Gatherer Cannibal We Are the World Masculinity Invertebrate Exoskeleton Bilaterally Symmetrical Got No Brain Feel No Pain Avatar Food Chain Submerged Unseen Danger Ancestor Spirit Animal Tropical Hieroglyphic Male Female Refuse Table Chair Environment Pleasure Stereotype Finger Lickin’ Good Add Hope No Hope Colonel Capitalist Mutations Crunching Bone Money 3-in-1 Box Combo Meal Altar Piece Signs Glowing In the Night Consumerist Temple Happy Environment Happy Meal Crocodile Cannibal Step On Costume Performance Sculpture Smooth Synthetic Plastic Pleasure Body Collage Ritual Mask Whip Luxe Calme Volupte XXX Hyper Caffeinated Hyper Masculine Hyper Stimulated Vitamin C Taurine Endorphins Steroid Testosterone Acid Reflux Cheap Thrills The Doctor Doritos Edvard Munch Wes Craven Horror Kurtz Slow Rivers Scary Movie Haunted House Role Playing The Internet Durban CNN Makro Piero Della Francesca The Plastic Shop Advertising Alibaba Psychedelics Game Leisure Suit Larry Landscape Amazon Cancer Chemotherapy Jazz Iggy Pop Sea Urchins Psychology Polystyrene Trivia Backstories Swimming Miami Menus Mindmaps German Expressionism Resistance Art Interviews Mass Builder Wile E Coyote Trees Collage Assemblage 90’s Raves Weaving Minecraft The ELC Rorkes Drift Arts & Craft Centre Anecdotes Chips Drinks Doctor Pamphlets Casino Cabaret Brutalism Addiction Children’s stories

Cameron Platter’s work filters, in a highly personal and idiosyncratic way, the enormous amount of information available today. Blurring the distinction between high and low, his eclectic and multi- disciplinary approach to art making, typically draws from every day, unorthodox, transient, fragmented, disparate, over-looked sources

Born in 1978, Johannesburg, Cameron Platter’s recent solo exhibitions include IMAGINE at Galerie Ernst Hilger Vienna; Teen_Non Fiction at 1301PE, Los Angeles; You Look Like Your Face, Éric Hussenot, Paris; Salami at GNYP Gallery, Berlin; 13 Works, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco; and GALAXY AS0-730223NMJ-ZSDSSS, KZNSA (2018). Platter’s work has also been exhibited at MoMA, New York; SFMoMA; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Le Biennale de Dakar, Senegal; La Biennale di Venezia, Italy and the South African National Gallery. In 2015, Platter was announced as the 2015 Artist in Residence at Zeitz MOCAA.

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 Los Angeles Times, Artforum, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vice Magazine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Art South Africa.

He lives and works in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

EXHIBITIONS:

2010 The Old Fashion, Volta NY, New York City, United States of America

Hard Times, Great Expectations, Whatiftheworld/ Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

I Am Lonelyness, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2009 Black Up That White Ass II, Youngblackman, Cape Town, South Africa

2008 Studio, KNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa

3 Stories, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa

Too Much of Anything is Very Dangerous, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2006 Party Time, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa

Beware of the Curves, Labia Cinema, Cape Town, South Africa

2005 Life Is Very Interesting, Bell- Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa