"My work engages with public space and site-specificity, working within and outside of structures, often so as to begin to map out their own contradictions, as well as the limits of their representation. This applies as much to a building set for demolition in a transforming city or a ‘non-site’ – and of course also to the gallery space on a fair like FOCUS10."

Bettina Malcomess, born in 1977 in South Africa, lives between the cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town. Working across disciplines as a writer, lecturer, curator and artist, her practice is defined by interdisciplinarity and collaboration. Bettina Malcomess is a member of the

all girl collective «Doing it for Daddy», selected as one of the winners of the Spier Contemporary Art Award (2007). She co-curated the group show «Us» at the Johannesburg Art Gallery with Simon Njami (2009). Currently she is completing a book on the city with artist Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, working under the name deadheat. Bettina Malcomess works in performance under the name Anne Historical and collaborated with Cameroonian/French artist Bili Bidjoka. At the Johannesburg Art Fair (2008, 2009) she worked on two collaborative, curatorial projects: «you deserve the truth», a polygraph test conducted on various art world personalities, and «the work you requested», a series of interventions in a booth at the fair.