Dafe Oboro is part of a new generation of Africa-based storytellers. Walking the line between fashion imagery and social documentary, Oboro’s work is encompassed in the tender and benevolent humor of this talented image-maker.
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Aïcha Snoussi and Alida Rodrigues: Constructed Mythos
Visual artists Aïcha Snoussi (Tunisia) and Alida Rodrigues (Angola) illustrate a body of imagery that is developed from distortions of the social world and vestiges of the imaginary.
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Cultural Platform “Of Soul and Joy”, Johannesburg: Lives through the lens
Of Soul and Joy in Thokoza, Johannesburg, is a project that seeks to empower young adults through a camera lens.
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David Goldblatt and Zanele Muholi: The Grey Area
In a country struggling to shape its identity in the wake of recent history, South African photographers have utilised their chosen medium as a tool to explore an ever-changing social and cultural climate.
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Esther Mahlangu’s gift to the World: The Geometry of Now
Dr. Esther Mahlangu’s monumental works immediately summon the viewer to the Melrose Gallery’s booth in the Investec Cape Town Art Fair’s PAST/MODERN section (guest-curated by João Ferreira).
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Inside Gregory Olympio’s shapeless, Brightly-Hued world
French-Beninese artist Gregory Olympio uses his abstract painting style to explore the ways in which life can be boundless, more of a feeling than something you can hold.
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Cape Town Art Fair: “New sensibilities”
Southern Guild makes its debut at this year’s edition of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair with a special project that introduces audiences to a different genre of collectible pieces.
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Clarke’s Bookshop: Bridging the art world to audiences through books
Established in 1956, Clarke’s Bookshop in Cape Town, South Africa, is one of the oldest surviving independent bookshops in the country.
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Cape Town Art Fair’s curatorial project “SOLO”: Proprioception
SOLO – the Investec Cape Town Art Fair’s curatorial project – is nothing short of astonishing this year. It is not the nod to women artists, a global genuflection, that matters, but the quality of the work.
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Thuli Gamedze : Escaping the machine
Inter-disciplinary artist Thuli Gamedze is a self-described ‘cultural worker’ whose practice is situated between curating and ‘the production of things’.
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