JACOBUS CAPONE is welcomed to MOORE CONTEMPORARY with a solo exhibition featuring a suite of eighteen paintings on paper that were made while on residency on the island of Upernavik, Greenland, in the winter of 2017. Piteraq is a katabatic wind originating on the icecap that sweeps down the coasts with speeds reaching between 180-288 km/h. The word "piteraq" translates to "that which attacks you".

Largely confined indoors, and quelling the anxieties induced by the extreme weather and hostile environment, Capone turned the recall and depiction of string games from a children's book into a daily ritual. Venturing out to collect the sea ice to mix with the gouache was an essential activity and characteristic of Capone's immersive and performative approach that guides his practice.

Studies of string games, rendered in black gouache with melted sea ice on black sugar paper, are in their intimacy charged with the magnitude of the physical and psychological challenges of living in 24 hours of darkness in a hunting and fishing village 800 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Accompanying these unique works is a new 2 channel HD video work and an edition photographic print.

This display was interrupted by public health restritions regarding the global pandemic. The exhibition was re-staged in September 2020 (see Project 18, above).