The solo-exhibition, 4 Auto-Stroke (2006), presented at Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, responded to car culture in South Africa, and honed in on triggers that reveal shifts in the ‘culture-nature matrix’ (Phillips 2003). I observed that the sounds of car alarms were more prevalent on weekend mornings in my neighbourhood in Cape Town, possibly as a result of bleary-eyed car-owners accidently setting off their car alarms. These mechanical sounds competed with the dawn chorus and I predicted an urban setting where nature and culture merge in the sound artwork, Reverse cuckoo. As a whole, the exhibition contrasted glamorous car culture with the wrangling for oil supplies (Slick), self-obsession (I) and sexual tension (Twitchers).

Read Carine Zaayman’s review of the exhibition, published in Art South Africa (Summer 2006).