I Can Feel It in My Eyes
“Portia Zvavahera’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, I Can Feel It in My Eyes. Zvavahera exhibits several new large format paintings depicting young lovers in ecstatic embrace amongst the lush gardens of Harare’s Central Park. Screened by gigantic flowers that protect and seclude them in their private love, the couples seem lost in their feelings, oblivious to the gaze of the outside world. Painted in layers using oil bar and oil-based printing ink, areas are built up through multiple perspectives of modelled forms, and with flat patterned sections recalling the block printing process of textile design. Rich and deeply coloured backgrounds shroud the couples, with sweeping brush marks and graphic gestures describing the natural surrounds. The couples’ monumental figures appear to levitate in a primal space, as if they were beings from a parallel world – the powerful, strange and radically autonomous world of the artist…”
-Stevenson
“My models are my muses. I like to capture people that I find interesting in life. Though they do not always have ‘the perfect feature’, they fascinate me – they are normal people yet whimsical” Xiangyu Liu says. The Chinese photographer moved to Russia to study fine arts before turning to photography. There, he discovered another…
‘René Magritte’s cerebral, enigmatic paintings and prints helped define the imagery and philosophy of the Surrealist movement. His most famous works, including The Treachery of Images (1929) and The Son of Man (1946), explore the illusory power of art and juxtapose mundane and fantastical iconography. Magritte was born in Belgium. After a stint at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels…
“I never saw anyone that looked like me in movies or on the covers of fashion magazines. I also didn’t see Asian photographers shooting for the magazines I looked at, which made me question if I could even make it as a photographer” – Peter Ash Lee. Xiao Wen Ju graces the pages of Vogue…
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