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Daydream
A Coloring Book Inspired by Johannesburg. Read Through Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

Item date(s): 2016

Naadira Patel


Medium: Recycled paper
Size: 210mm
Binding: Stapled
Technique: Digital print

Theme(s): Urban space; Johannesburg; Newtown; Fordsburg

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: The artist
Exhibition 2017

Reference note:
Daydream is inspired by architectural quirks and interesting spaces in the Newtown / Fordsburg neighborhood, related to mining and the gold rush, aspiration for wealth and the dream of escape.

I started the City Coloring Book Series in May 2016 during a residency at the Bag Factory in Fordsburg. Each book is a collection of drawings and collages, observations of a neighborhood, and reflections on the conditions within and through which certain neighborhoods exist and thrive.

210 x 146mm

Digital print on Cyclus Offset 100% Recycled Paper

Spaces in Newtown and Fordsburg

The books look at heritage in the city, the influx of the new, bridges that divide and connect, the upsurge of new property developments and a mixed blend of aesthetics that speak to Johannesburg as a city in flux.



Exhibition notes:
‘Booknesses: Contemporary South African Artist's Books’.

FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg.

Curated by David Paton and Eugene Hon.

24 March - 5 May 2017



Ref: DP/17062











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