Exhibition

UBUHLE

3 Nov 2022 – 22 Dec 2022

Regular hours

Thursday
12:00 – 19:00
Friday
12:00 – 19:00
Saturday
12:00 – 19:00
Tuesday
12:00 – 19:00
Wednesday
12:00 – 19:00

Free admission

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Bonne Espérance Gallery

Paris
Île-de-France, France

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Bonne Espérance continues its exploration of the South African art scene with an exhibit mixing sculpture, poetry and light paintings made of thousands of glass beads hand-sewn onto fabric. All are beautiful -- UBUHLE means "beauty" in Zulu and Xhosa.

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The beaded paintings by Zondlile Zondo, Zandile, Ntombephi and Thando Ntobela of the Ubuhle collective take us on an extraordinary optical and mental journey. Thousands of glass beads that they patiently sew onto fabric spring up singular images, iridescent and almost fantastic landscapes in which shapes, lines and colours engage in a sensual and colourful contest. The eye, frantic, twirls like their needle from furrows to islands, from curves to scrolls, from patterns to flat tints. It clings, it tears itself away and comes back. 

Out of the memories of a South African childhood artist and poet Zoe Hirson works on found pieces of worn, richly grained wood. She shapes and burns it, adds to it coloured buttons, nails, strips of copper and white thread. And each sculpture comes with its own poem. Her lines of lucid, vulnerable words speak to whatever she has made: “I travel/ till I reach the shores of my heart/ and let the waves wash over/ the pebbles of my hurt.”

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Zoë Hirson

Ubuhle collective

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