CHRIS SOAL
Guns and Rain, Johannesburg
A previous winner of the PPC Imaginarium award, Soal’s practice is concerned with the materiality of everyday objects that are available en masse and used by millions of people globally, and so by nature are disposable — objects manufactured to become debris. His work began with an exploration of the form of a discarded beer-bottle top, which led to a conceptual investigation around the histories embedded within these objects, with a specific focus on their location within the city of Joburg and its socio-political, economic and geographic implications. While Soal did not initially set out to use such materials, he now consciously focuses on this materiality. gunsandrain.com