Kai Lossgott is a South African interdisciplinary artist whose object, body and lens-based practice encompasses the fields of performance, photography, writing, drawing and film.
[11] Through stop-motion and time-lapse macro photography, coupled with a soundtrack remixing lectures on floral dissection, the artist’s voice reflects in small and common matters on consciously perceiving tiny things otherwise taken for granted.
secret powers is inspired by the 2011 Occupy Movement and highlights how choosing to be “unplugged” as a conscious lifestyle decision might help conserve dwindling natural resources, but also represents victims of climate justice.
[13] In nothing with skin is blind, the artist focuses on the materiality of the plant leaf as ‘body’, engraving experimental texts in the tradition of 19th century romantic love poetry on the leaves by hand, typewriter and laser, then displaying them like botanical specimens in light boxes.
[15] In the solo exhibition secure, Lossgott creates a dialogue around white suburban identity in South Africa in the form of photographs, sketches, video installations, texts and an experimental website.