Gallery MOMO Cape Town. Pedro Pires l Doppelgänger

Gallery MOMO Cape Town is proud to announce Pedro Pires’s first exhibition in Cape Town, entitled Doppelgänger. Milica Zivkovic (2000:120) explains that the doppelgänger “is not ‘outside’ time but produced within and determined by its social context.”  This statement by Zivkovic resonates with Pires’s current body of work created while attending the MOMO Artist Residency in Johannesburg.  The title refers to a possible/proposed identity that the sculptures and drawings have, reflecting the social contexts of Johannesburg.

Pires's body of work becomes a mirror reflecting that which exists dependently with and “pursues the subject as [its] second self” making it “feel as himself and the other at the same time” (Zivkovic, 2000:121).