If you’re out and about in Cape Town CBD on Saturday 26 June between 12 and 3pm, you may just be lucky enough to encounter someone riding a bicyle who hands you a rolled up wad of stunning original artworks and your day will be made!
Papergirl SA #1 culminates this Saturday with Ride Day. The past few months have seen the organisers rally support for this wonderful initiative and gather artworks from both South Africa and abroad.
Papergirl is an art project which, in the style of American paperboys, distributes rolled art pieces by bicycle to random passers-by in the streets.
The project was founded in Berlin by Aisha Ronniger and has been carried out once a year in summer since 2006. Now Papergirl has spread and will also take place in Cape Town.
The basic idea with the project is to bring art to the public in a different way than normal; to surprise people and bring them into contact with art in their everyday life. The idea of distributing art by bike came from the search for new ways to bring art straight to society, and have fun doing so! Papergirl is, in short: participatory, analogue, non-commercial and impulsive.
An exhibition of all works will be held the evening before Ride Day (Friday 25 June) at Word of Art Studios (66 Albert Road, Woodstock Industrial Centre, Woodstock) from 6 – 9:30pm
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