Sasol New Signatures Catalogue 2021 - Book - Page 14
RUNNER-UP
Runner-up
DALLI
WEYERS
(Johannesburg)
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This artwork is a metatextual manifesto that reflects on the
historical role of the manifesto and the need for this specific
manifesto created by the artist at this moment in the everunfolding story of humanity. Forward: A manifesto draws
from the archive to inform our response to the uncertainties
of today.
The use of the artist’s preferred medium, plastic bags, is
made poignant by both the permanence and fragility of
plastic bags. Plastic bags, through a process of photodegradation, disintegrate but don’t break down completely.
Instead, they turn into microplastics that remain in the
environment for centuries. The use of this medium thus
reflects both the detritus and progress made throughout
history – both present and unseen – that the manifesto
hopes to draw from and address.
SASOL NEW SIGNATURES • 2021 CATALOGUE
Biography
Dalli Weyers is an activist, social democrat, and queer
atheist with a bent for art, visual communication, and
politics. Weyers is currently employed as a Human
Rights Officer with the South African Human Rights
Commission. Weyers has been involved in multiple
social justice initiatives such as, but not limited
to, designing fliers and posters for the Treatment
Action Campaign (2005-2009), offering workshops
to the school going members for Equal Education’s
Equalisers on apartheid and global social justice
struggle iconography and poster design (2009-2011),
designing the Ndifuna Ukwazi logo (2011), and most
recently giving input into the visual language used by
the Khayelitsha-based Social Justice Coalition in print,
media, and protest.
