Everybody Was Blind is a collaborative project of performance artist and conceptual photographer Monique Pelser and renowned musician Sam Tshabalala, who fled apartheid-ridden South Africa for France in 1983.
Their path crossed in Paris, at the Cité internationale des arts. They engaged in an impromptu, interactive research experience using music, photography, printing and performative research methods to develop a conversation about Sam Tshabalala’s story as an artist in exile. Both artists will reflect on their personal experiences and memories of South Africa in the 1980s and how their personal stories developed thereafter, in the form of improvisation sessions.
Monique Pelser (South Africa) is in residence at Cité internationale des arts through Institut français' programme.