Artist in resident Laurent Valera hosted the very first workshop at Alliance Française Soweto since its reopening. Valera along with other Alliance Française staff worked with water and the significance of water in a number of ways. Valera, in particular, showed the many ways one could be creative with water by playing with aspects of light and […]
It was a pleasure to have had all who came last night to the Opening of Laurent Valera and Dalila Dalléas Bouzar exhibition at Alliance Française, Johannesburg. The Southern African Foundation of Contemporary Art was born out of the passion of the arts so to have had shared it with you is a gift in an of itself. […]
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Please join us on 22nd of March at 18:00 at 17 Lower Park Drive – Parview ABOUT THE ARTISTS PROJECTS IN SOUTH AFRICA: Laurent Valera Workshops with kids in SKY Soweto Kliptown Youth : Before coming to South Africa in Johannesburg I met in Bordeaux two architects, Nicolas Hubrecht and Christophe Hutin. Both have forged strong ties […]
Avant ma venue en Afrique du Sud à Johanneburg j’ai rencontré à Bordeaux deux architectes, Nicolas Hubrecht et Christophe Hutin. Tous les deux on noués des liens forts avec le quartier de Kliptown à Soweto où ils mènent des projets depuis de nombreuses années. C’est eux qui m’ont transmis les contacts de l’orphelinat Soweto Kliptown […]
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Je continue ici mes recherches et mon travail sur la thématique de l’eau avec des travaux picturaux, des objets, des photographies et des vidéos. L’Afrique du Sud connait depuis plusieurs années de gros problèmes d’accès à l’eau douce. Victime du phénomène climatique El Niño, Le Cap sera la première grande ville du monde à manquer […]
We had a fabulous time this morning with Laurent Valera in the fabulously revitalised part of town known as Maboneng. We had the opportunity to great the Sentinels of Louis Olivier, engage with the vibrant but serene show of Bianca Bondi at the Hazard Gallery, and pay respect to an exhilarating anonymous Don Quixote riding […]