Io Makandal

(b 1987, South Africa. Lives and works in Cape Town)

Makandal is intrigued by how humanised activity on earth creates a binary relationship between nature and society and how this dynamic is continually evolving. The work acts as a fictional space and place that illustrates the fluctuation between the environments we create and the supposed natural realm. Marks and colours create visual mind-scapes and alternate landscapes; and implied realities. “I am interested in matter; intersectional spaces; hybrid environments; relational realities; pataphysics; autopoiesis and third landscapes in the time of climate change”.