Tag: George Hallett
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Through Hallett’s Eyes: SA jazz, art, and African literature

“To look, until seeing… but seeing by way of retrieval, of resurging images, buried in unconscious memory. This is the undefined space where, one day, the archival nature of George Hallett’s photography revealed itself. Immersed in a combination of visual, graphic, and textual elements, there they were, all along, rubbing shoulders with other iconic images,…
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PASS @ The Showroom

Christine Eyene will take part in PASS, Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station radio hosted in The Chimurenga Library, a project co-curated by Chimurenga, The Otolith Collective and The Showroom. The two conversations will focus on Cameroon’s Bikutsi music (Sat 10 Oct), looking at the origins of the genre, its message and style, its influence in…
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GEORGE HALLETT: PORTRAITS FROM EXILE

Featured image: Gerard Sekoto posing in front of his painting Homage to Steve Biko. Nogent-sur-Marne, 1988. © George Hallett. Private collection. George Hallett: Portraits from Exile, the non-selling exhibition curated by Christine Eyene and facilitated by Ayo Adeyinka, coincides with Bonhams’s South African sale on 27 October, and includes portraits of Gerard Sekoto and Dumile…