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Ibid, the new artwork created by UK artist Alec Shepley for Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, comprised an improvised site made by grouping together seven elements formed from various media and materials. Found and made objects, broken models and fractured forms, photographs, video and sound immerse the viewer in a heterotopian place of making and unmaking, to speculate on the notion of a work’s becoming and create for themselves, a narrative of possibility.

‘I am from Leonia’ influenced by Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities (particularly the cities of Leonia and Sophronia) was a new video piece made especially for this show at KDMOFA. In the video which is played on a continuous loop, the viewer witnesses a figure steadily and purposively sweeping his way around what appears to be an abandoned and ruined building and attempting to fulfill the seemingly impossible blueprint referred to by the inhabitants of Invisible Cities.