The Taxi Project was a way of making art accessible to Capetonian taxi commuters and enriching their daily experiences as they travel across a city characterised by the huge disparity between the haves and have-nots. During the COVID pandemic, Petersen made a film Kassaram that interrogated the artistic strategies used by European Colonial forces to create and impose racial classifications on South African society. In the Taxi Project, images from the film were used as stills and reproduced as images on the taxi’s body, turning it into colourful traveling art; a moving story that echoed the film that was shown in the taxi.
About Thania Petersen
Thania Petersen is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses photography, performance, and installation to address the intricacies and complexities of her identity in contemporary South Africa. Her work takes on multiple forms as a fusion of photography, performance, video, and multimedia installations that reference Islam and its cultural and historical practice by Cape Creole people to interrogate her lineage.
