Vanille Bleue: Up close and personal with artist Paul M...
“As I fall in love I also grieve, because falling can feel like digging and because love can feel like a form of death,” reads one of the diary entries that Paul Maheke wrote at the height of the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, which he spent in Paris in the heat of July. His latest exhibition, Vanille Bleue, which opened at the Johannesburg branch of the Goodman Gallery in mid-April, feeds directly from these intimate musings, penned in a moment of uncertainty and fragility. Maheke’s private thoughts float through the gallery, printed in white onto sheer, dark-blue fabric that falls in curtai...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za