OSJ presents at PHOTO SAINT GERMAIN 2022
Exhibition on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Of Soul and Joy at PhotoSaintGermain
JABULANI DHLAMINI
THEMBINKOSI HLATSHWAYO
Curated by Valérie Fougeirol
The exhibition iHubo* – Whispers with its two complementary facets, is built around memories which resurface – past and present, in colour and in black and white – the traces of personal stories which intersect and intermingle, so that it can exist in the Present.
This exhibition brings together two photographic expressions – the mental palette of a dream is reflected in the soft colour of everyday life, and faced with the black and white temporality of history, dark matter in full metamorphosis is brought to life; words, sounds and whispers merge in a shared artistic approach which makes it possible to reshape suffering, and to free the narrative from the past so that it can exist in the Present.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the photographic programme Of Soul and Joy conducted by Rubis Mécénat in the township of Thokoza, south-east of Johannesburg in South Africa, the endowment fund is inviting two South African photographers involved in the project, Jabulani Dhlamini and Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, to present in France a new photographic work that has been elaborated in close collaboration on the theme of memory.
As part of the PhotoSaintGermain festival and with curator Valérie Fougeirol, the two photographers, who met as mentor and student, have decided to bring their perspectives together at the point where personal memory and trauma intersect. Jabulani went back to the countryside of his childhood, and to Warden in particular, a landscape which is imbued with the emotional words of generations of transmitters of history. For his part, Thembinkosi returned to the family tavern where memories of violence are transformed into ghosts embedded in the walls and in objects-presences replayed in apparitions which are captured, scratched and burned.
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3 - 19 November 2022
Rubis Mécénat hors-les-murs
12, rue Jacques Callot – 75006 Paris
Curated by Valérie Fougeirol