The Colours are the Bark at Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
September 28, 2024 - November 13, 2024
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
‘The Colours are the Bark’, brings together a range of works made throughout a number of years, tracing the artist’s extensive oeuvre. Featuring paintings, drawings and mixed media works the show is an exploration of “the big and small stories that take our beings towards the burning questions of the world, urging us to go beyond the surface,” says Gbaguidi.
Gbaguidi’s candid and sometimes tongue-in-cheek creations depict splintered figures in different forms and settings – moving, contorting, shapeshifting. As rigorous colour erupts alongside subtle hues, creatures lay next to other creatures, they merge with animal and plant life and other objects, breaking the hard edges between me/us/them/it.