Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Porky Hefer’s works are a well-loved fixture on the global design-fair circuit – selling to museums and collectors worldwide. These playful and immersive nesting environments are returning from the international stage to join new works for Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious; the artist’s first solo show in Johannesburg.

The human-scale nests and living pods are both fantasy worlds and furniture – beautifully crafted, functional and alive somehow - evocative of childhood and wildness. Recurring themes are the loss of instinct, humanity’s preoccupation with received wisdom and the lessons implicit in the natural world. By engaging with these works – climbing into Shell or perching on Leopard Branch, for example – audiences are returned to a child-like state, awake to instinct and immediate perception.