Taking its title from an Elton John ballad, Linda Stupart’s Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me will convert the interior of blank project space into a lurid neon sunset, shining out onto the street at night, for the duration of the show.

The piece is inspired by the first evening of a brief love affair, coinciding with the artist’s first visit to the city of Johannesburg where she was stunned by the luminosity of the smog-engulfing sunset. Acknowledging that this sunset, like many all over the world, is only so intense and beautiful because of pollution became the starting point for the installation which suggests that this Hallmark icon of romance is a result of the by-products of human consumption, greed and waste.

Thus, the work aims to present the beauty, banality and the filth of such a sunset – using neon lighting as a symbol of sin, sex and excess.