Chloë Hugo-Hamman is an artist and teacher who lives and works in Cape Town. She works across drawing, textiles, and sculpture. Her practice explores how systems of classification within mental health shape understandings of the body through textiles and clothing. Working with soft materials and fabric scraps, she creates tactile works that sit between garment, object, and body.
Through slow, repetitive processes of hand-stitching, layering, mending, stuffing, and containment, she investigates ideas of vulnerability, protection, discomfort, and transformation, considering the relationship between internal psychological experience and the social structures that influence it.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Cape Town, a Master of Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cape Town.
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Cultural Village 2014
Part of the group exhibition Uncertain Terms
What If The World
Cape Town
Cultural Village is a questioning of the complications of living in a capitalist world as well as being a shrine to some of my favorite South African food items. It muddles what is deemed worthy of such a position within a neoliberal world system. While most of these items are not healthy for the body nor are they examples of conscious consumption they hold a meaningful space in daily life and cultural memory. The colours and textures of the items emit an energy and glow. They speak to the kind of signage synonymous of a capitalist world but also of the rich colours and golden hues of a shrine.
