On a world tour at Square Theatre with video installation Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta by Su Tomesen

Plein Theatre presents from 13 July to 30 July the extraordinary four-channel video installation Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta by artist Su Tomesen. The video installation shows the daily life of street vendors on four different continents.

Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta

Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta is about how private enterprises occupy urban public space every day and how the small entrepreneurs - sometimes literally - make ends meet to generate an income. The daily, sometimes miraculous activities are shown without dialogue and without text and explanation. Some situations are reminiscent of visual art performances or installations.

The installation is a loop: the four films of 30 minutes each begin and end at roughly the same hour of the morning and are presented in one space. The viewer is taken through four days on different continents strung together by appearances and disappearances of stalls, repairs and inventive solutions to everyday problems. Watching the four films together, one can see the global similarities of the street vendors of the four different continents.

Su Tomesen

Artist Su Tomesen makes videos, photographs, installations and interventions. Her projects and series are characterised by social engagement, an anthropological character and raw energy. The subjects mostly concern the dynamics of the urban fabric and human ingenuity within the wonderful world of micro-economy. Her videos move on the edge of fine art and documentary, as does Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta, on which she worked for six years.

Programme Square Theatre

Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta can be visited continuously from 13 July to 30 July from 12:00 to 20:00 in Square Theatre by time slot of 60 minutes.

For €7.50, you can book a ticket online at www.plein-theater.nl. City pass holders with a green dot can enter for €2.50.

On the walls of the Eetlokaal at Plein Theater, a photo exhibition by Su Tomesen with the same theme as the installation will be on display during the same period. The opening hours of the Eetlokaal, with summer terrace and vegetarian menu, are Wednesday to Sunday from 14:00 to 22:00.

To deepen the installation and photo exhibition, Plein Theatre is hosting Artist Talks with Su Tomesen about the creation of her project on 13 July at 20:00 and 23 July at 16:00.