Archive as Terrarium | Part 3
Exhibition 10–12 October 2019
Installation photograph from ‘Archive as Terrarium: Part 3’ on A4’s top floor. On the left, Christian Nerf’s ‘Graffiti (Berlin)’ and Nerf and Simon Couch’s ‘Theorist vs. Conceptualist’ are mounted on the wall. At the top, Nerf’s ‘Unoriginals (Trasi Henen)’ is mounted on the wall. On the right, Nerf and francis burger’s ‘And Not But’ sits on a plinth, with a column of yellow paint running across the plinth and the wall behind it.
Installation view: Christian Nerf’s Archive as Terrarium | Part 3, October 10, 2019–October 12, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title Archive as Terrarium | Part 3 Dates 10–12 October 2019 Location Top Floor Tagline An exhibition by Christian Nerf.

"What threads, what bookends, what rules have been at work: what accommodates the freedom to play? It's easy to forget that to 'play by one's own rules', one has to first go to the effort to grasp those rules that are already in play."
– Christian Nerf (2019)

Christian Nerf spends his time back in Cape Town unpacking an archive that spans more than twenty years.

Process photograph from Christian Nerf’s residency at A4 Arts Foundation shows a painting of Nerf by Jake Aikman, wearing a life jacket while floating in water.
Studio view: Christian Nerf’s residency, August 26– October 22, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
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