Daleside at PhotoSaintGermain

2020

'Daleside' Exhibition
Cyprien Clément-Delmas & Lindokuhle Sobekwa
06 - 21 November 2020
Rubis Mécénat hors-les-murs
12, rue Guénégaud
75006 Paris, France

As part of PhotoSaintGermain, Rubis Mécénat presents Daleside, a commission to French photographer Cyprien Clément-Delmas and South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa, a member of the Of Soul and Joy project and a Magnum Photos Associate. The photographic commission initiated by Rubis Mécénat in 2015 documents Daleside, an Afrikaner suburb located south-east of Johannesburg in South Africa.

Daleside is a small isolated Afrikaaner town in South Africa’s Gauteng province. At a distance, it keeps its white population inward-looking, forgotten in an old “separate development” project. For five years, the two artists were able to revisit together the validity of this white enclave through photographs in dialogue. The two photographers painted a portrait of Daleside, approached the places and the inhabitants, mostly minors or precarious, awakening their dreams or revealing their distress.