In the June iteration of Goods, artist Gaelen Pinnock and A4 Assistant Curator Nkhensani Mkhari present in security, a research project that takes the boundaries and thresholds found within South African cities and their surrounding suburbs as subject and material. In a series of four sculptural assemblages, Gaelen extends considerations on the visual culture of power, land ownership and divisive spatial planning as communicated by fences, barbed wire, security cameras and hostile architecture. In doing so, he asks after the ideologies embedded in these signs and how they reflect our current sociocultural landscape. Can they be transformed from tools to discourage and instil fear, he asks, into invitations for contemplation? Gaelen’s sculptures become obstacles within a project space that also functions as A4’s Goods entrance.

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Goods is a project space for work in process and thinking aloud. The location’s transitory nature as a thoroughfare encourages a light-footed navigation of curatorial and artistic practice and rapid prototyping of ideas.