THK Gallery at ART X Lagos 2022

THK Gallery is proud to present the work of Nonzuzo Gxekwa, Talut Kareem, and Lulama Wolf at ArtXLagos 2022. 

 

Join us online and in person as we showcase Talut Kareem’s richly detailed self portraits, Nonzuzo Gxekwa’s striking photographs, and Lulama Wolf's powerful new body of work is this still life?, on booth 22 at The Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, from 4-6 November.

At the intersection of Neo-Expressionism and Modern African Art, Lulama Wolf interrogates the pre-colonial African experience through the contemporary mind by using smearing, scraping, and deep pigment techniques that were used in vernacular architecture, and the patterns created largely by women to decorate traditional African homes. 

Wolf’s depicted bodies indicate a world beyond themselves and signal towards broader themes and processes. Traversing both the personal and the political. She engages with themes of African spirituality within a contemporary context and merges that with colour theory influenced by traditional South African, vernacular architecture and indigenous rock art. 

 

"Are we still? Is this still life? Is stillness achievable in the lives we are leading in the modern world? Are we still in our being? "

Nonzuzo Gxekwa's approach to photography favours the everyday over the spectacular; sharing intimate moments by focusing the camera on what is around her as well as on herself. Whether photographing in the street or in the studio, her work explores the human condition in subtle and beautiful ways.

Her optic is loving. It’s not simply that she chooses to focus on moments of self love—the way people occupy themselves—but that in the taking, her subjects are never wholly circumscribed. There is always space to manoeuvre.