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Stencils
I Hate It When It Rains

I Hate It When It Rains (in Collaboration with Dorothee Kreutzfeldt)
intervention
2008

I Hate It When It Rains
poster
2008

In 2004, I had helped Dorothee to install hand-painted signs which were integrated within inner city Johannesburg, South Africa. Four years later, Dorothee decided to remove some signs, paint over others and offer them as space to other artists. She asked me if I would like to take over one. Sitting in my studio in Belgium, I had been staring out at the rain for the last few weeks and was thinking about how weather defined my experience of a place and also how it has the ability to make me feel very foreign and out of place.
Later the poster of I Hate it When It Rains was created as part of the HISK final year 2008 exhibition, PERCHE REALIZZARE UN'OPERA QUANDO E COSI BELLO SOGNARLA SOLTANTO?, curated by Philippe Van Cauteren and Thomas Caron. The artists involved each created individual posters, that were given away to the audience for free. The posters functioned in place of a traditional catalogue. For my poster I approached Roma Publications to design a new poster using the phrase, I hate it when it rains, giving them complete creative control over the design.