Dada Khanyisa‘s signature ‘sculptural work’ are taking heart stage in a brand new solo exhibition London’s Sadie Coles HQ. Titled that is for you, the Joburg-raised Cape City-based, artist displays their speedy group within the South African capital to constructs a vigorous visible poetry. Mixing pop and youth tradition with a deeper political historical past, Khanyisa captures up to date and displays it again onto the viewer with vibrancy, motion and humor.
that is for you appears to be like to nostalgia and collective historical past as means to discover the current. The works on view, created from hand-carved wooden and located objects, bear a scrapbook-like high quality. Khanyisa’s background in conventional and digital animation sings by way of modernist kinds, enchanting a choreographic figurative strategy the place posed topics collide with painted panels and three-dimensional parts.
“I attempt to embody native objects in my work. I feel it’s necessary so far as grounding the work in a location,” Khanyisa instructed Juxtapoz. “I wouldn’t say the individuals are explicit or particular, however these are the folks I’m round, and I’m occupied with presenting a wider picture of the folks I’ve round.”
The exhibition is now on view on the gallery’s Davies Avenue location.
Sadie Coles HQ
1 Davies St,
London W1K 3DB,
United Kingdom
