Exposition ORIGINS

Sophie BRUNIES and Khwezi STRYDOM present their exhibition ORIGIN'S mixing ceramics and paintings.

Sophie BRUNIES is a ceramist from the South West of France. Since her adolescence she has expressed herself through painting, sculpture, theatre and dance. After 15 years in the socio-cultural animation, it is in 2014 that she starts the ceramic in Toulouse. She trained for 4 years before starting her activity in Drôme in 2018 where she currently has her workshop.
She comes to tell through the material the world that surrounds her, her love for nature and the and the relationship with the passing time.

Khwezi STRYDOM is a French-American street artist. Immersed from a young age in artistic creation in his mother's workshop, it is in his adolescence that he discovered graffiti as a teenager. After 5 years spent at the Saint-Louis crystal factory as a glassblower, he decided in 2010 to devote himself fully to painting. Several trips and residencies abroad later, he settled in Drôme in 2020, where he where he works today.
During this event, he will present a series of paintings created during his residency at SAFFAC (South African Foundation For Contemporary Art) in Brussels in September/October 2022.

The meeting between Sophie and Khwezi was born of a mutual attraction for their respective practices, a desire for discovery. Their complementary worlds blend into harmonious forms, combining a contemporary approach with an ancestral tradition. They give birth to ceramic pieces with antique lines. Their organic aspects are a desire to inscribe them in a primitive memory. The engraving of letters that is done on them, participates in this same movement. Indeed, the origin of the tag goes back to the beginnings of our Era. It is also a way of engraving one's name in the era, of marking one's time. Thus, we return to the to the origins of humanity.

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