Robin Rhode began his career as an artist in 2003 by participating in the exhibition How Latitudes Become Forms at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. His oeuvre has been characterized by a masterful combination of street art, painting, performance, film and photography. In addition to this, the history and current situation of his home country South Africa still play an important role on hus work. Thus, the Johannesburg's streets and neighborhoods offer him optimal conditions in which to implement ideas for his photographic works.
The various image sequences in the photographic serie Nigerian Sands bring to mind Eadweard Muybridge's chronophotographs.
The production principle is the same for several series : one or two performers interact with a mural, which has been applied to a wall on a street in South Africa with the aid of stencils. The individual stages in the works' production process are photographically captured, such that the arranged sequences of photos create the impression of a course of movement.
In this group of photographies, two protagonist dressed in black, a man and a woman, dance in twelve images sequences around a color wheel that comprises twelve differently colored cubes in twelve stages. Here, Rhode thematically plays with the concept of "squaring the circle", one of the most popular problems in geometry.