By Ogova Ondego
Published February 24, 2014
Pushing boundaries?
Maybe.
Kuona Trust is preparing to host an exhibition it refers to as presenting “a series of provocative images, tastefully used to communicate and express a specific understanding the artist has of Value.
It is a show of photography installation by a Nairobi-based photographer and digital and mixed media artist called Tahir Carl Karmali that shal be exhibited at Kuona Trust’s Centre for Visual Arts in Nairobi’s Hurlingham area.
The exhibition runs at Kuona Trust between February 27 and March 13, 2014.
The subject of that ‘value’, Kuona says, is male prostitutes of Nairobi who “present a provocative subject with traces of homosexual implications and male role stereotypes.”
“The exhibition,” Kuona Trust says in a media release, “is not simply a display of those in the sex industry, but an active force in articulating, shaping, and contesting the meaning of Value in the public sphere.”
Tahir Carl Karmali, Kuona says, “started his career in the corporate world but has been constantly in touch with the creative industry, constantly exploring the philosophies of existentialism whether through ink on canvas or the camera lens.”
Meanwhile, opening at Nairobi National Museum’s Ecology Gallery on March 4, 2014 at 6.00pm is Before the Rains/After the Rains. This is an exhibition of new paintings of Kenyan wildlife by Alexandra Spyratos who was born in Nairobi in Kenya but lives in Australia and Kenya.
Spyratos works with mixed media, oil paint, acrylics, charcoal, pastels and flourescent colour. She has held 33 solo shows in USA, Hong Kong, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Australia, Italy, Qatar and England.
Geoff Tooth, the High Commissioner of Australia to Kenya, shall preside over the opening of the exhibition that runs March 2-22, 2014.
