PEINTURES NOIR&BLANC - CONSTRUCTIONS SYMBOLIQUES
Prétexte à la rencontre et au dialogue, ces peintures faites sur les façades extérieures se veulent comme un langage anonyme qui envahit doucement le quartier de Lingwala, comme différentes lettres d’une nouvel idiome, chacune ayant une symbolique particulière, racontant un fragment de l’histoire de la colonisation, de l’identité blanche-noire ou du rôle de l’artiste dans la société.
Le Rubik’s cube a pour but d’aligner différentes couleurs ensemble, dans un ordre précis et parfait. Occultant la couleur pour préférer l’absence et la présence de lumière, le noir et le blanc, le désordre et leur entremêlement souhaitent ici donner un nouvel ordre, de métissage et de communication entre deux entités, sinon opposée, apparemment bien différenciées.

PAINTINGS IN BLACK AND WHITE – SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTIONS
The goal, here, was to foster dialogue. The focus was a series of paintings, all rendered in black and white, on walls and facades throughout the Lingwala quarter. Unsigned, the paintings were like an anonymous language – letters making up a new and peculiar idiom. First there were a few and then the number started growing; a slow but steady invasion was underway. Each “letter” had a symbolic meaning of its own; together, they spoke of fragments: a sliver of colonial history, a slice of White on Black and Black on White relations brought into being by that history, a sense of the role artists might play in shaping the social order.The model for the paintings was a Rubik’s cube. You know the game: the trick is to align a series of squares, all in the same bright colors (blue, red, yellow, etc) and in perfect linear order. Here, colour exited the equation: black and white were the only hues and and they were arrayed in no particular order. The goal was to find and define another kind of order, born of mixes and matches and métissages: to refuse dichotomies, to reject a social order built on oppositions and strict demarcations.