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A major figure of urban art, the South African artist FAITH XLVII exhibits forty works in a show called Clair-Obscur (Chiaroscuro) ー drawings, photographs, textual works and sculptures. Previously presented during the Rencontres urbaines of the Nancy Museum of Fine Arts, this exhibition invites the viewer to reflect on the notions of chiaroscuro, of contrast, and on our relationship to light and shadows.
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Mirroring our contradictions, her installations encourage us to turn our inner gaze towards the animality within us. It is only by listening to the non-human in us, by letting nature express itself in culture, that we can reinvent the world, the artist suggests.
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FaithXLVIIA Study of Light and Shadow V, 2022Wax Crayon on Archival Paper170 x 114 cm
66 7/8 x 44 7/8 in -
FaithXLVIIA Study of Light and Shadow II, 2022Wax Crayon on Archival Paper170 x 114 cm
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FaithXLVIIA Study of Light and Shadow IX, 2022Wax Crayon on Archival Paper198 x 114 cm
78 x 44 7/8 in -
FaithXLVIIA Study of Liminality I, 2020Pencil on Archival Paper21 x 29 cm (encadré 49 x 54 cm)
8 1/4 x 11 3/8 in (framed 19 x 21'')
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“Through her works, FAITH XLVII leads a spiritual search and offers the visitors to follow her on the winding path to serenity. Light and shadow are intertwined in her art and the chiaroscuro explored by the artist is ambivalent.
Deeply meditative, it invites us to pause.”
ー Susana Gállego Cuesta -
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FaithXLVIIA Study of Light and Shadow III, 2022Wax Crayon on Archival Paper170 x 114 cm
66 7/8 x 44 7/8 in -
FaithXLVIIA Study of Light and Shadow VI, 2022Wax Crayon on Archival170 x 114 cm
66 7/8 x 44 7/8 in -
FaithXLVIIA Study of Light and Shadow VII, 2022Wax Crayon on Archival Paper170 x 114 cm
66 7/8 x 44 7/8 in
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ART IN THE PUBLIC SPACE
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“FAITH XLVII’s work questions inner duality and the ambivalence of the world. Shadows intertwined with light, her work is highly inspired by Buddhism, connected to nature, but also haunted by the ghost of post-traumatic stress due to her South African origins. Through her creations, the exploration of the notion of consciousness makes us go through the worst as well as the best of the human experience.”
ー Amelie Adamo -