Robin Rhode tells stories from the streets. Deploying a restricted range of means, such as a stick of chalk or a can of spray paint, he goes out into the streets, uses the public space as a stage on which to act out his performance interventions, tapping into the subcultural vernacular and visual logic of graffiti or stencils. This is more than just a pose for Rhode. It is certainly the personal background of the artist, who was born in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Johannesburg, that leads him to conceive the street as the arena in which history is actually played out and in which stories unfold. The combination of graffiti and performance, recorded in photo series or short video films, and uniting ephemeral drawings and the physical presence of the artist’s own body, releases an imaginative force, serving to visualise that which is absent.