Wesley John Fourie

Mason's Ballad (2024)

13 min 59 sec3 channel installation / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

Jubilantly singing and brandishing various items—a staple gun, a paint roller, a can of fly spray, a disassembled fan—Wesley John Fourie dances across the screen. Filmed in the artist’s studio, Mason’s Ballad (2024) comprises three different videos from Fourie’s ongoing HYPERBALLAD series in one frame. Playfully engaging with expressions of identity, internet culture, and queer experience through performance, in Mason’s Ballad, they are both creator and star.

— Kat Rowan, 'Dancing to Mason's Ballad,' CIRCUIT, 2025

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