Kendell Geers (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1968). Currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
The work of Kendell Geers formulates an atypical and critical desacralizing discourse in the current artistic panorama. The notion of power, the central axis of his work, is revealed in representations that directly or metaphorically evoke subjects such as violence, religion and spirituality, morals, sex and the body, discipline and fear. His productions question the West’s fixed system of values, pointing to elements such as the struggles for power and class, racism, the ideals of purity, history, injustice or inequality… Click to continue reading
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