PRESS RELEASE
RICKY DYALOYI | ISIPHAMBUKA SENDLELA (THE CROSSROADS)
Nov 20 – Dec 13, 2021
RICKY DYALOYI
ISIPHAMBUKA SENDLELA (THE CROSSROADS)
Opening 20 November 2021 | 11h00 | 20 Huguenot Road, Franschhoek
The notion of a ‘crossroads’ perfectly encapsulates the work of Dyaloyi. For me, his paintings have always manifested at the intersection of the concrete and the intangible. Though his paintings clearly originate in his lived experience, it’s as if he distils the world around him, decoding its noise and clarifying the essences of the human condition. Then he reimagines and re-encrypts the everyday into his visions in paint.
The results are haunting stories. The protagonists are stripped out of the prosaic and transmuted into energetic expressions of humanity that seem to collapse time. Are we the protagonists or are these figures our ancestors or, rather, our future selves? I think for Dyaloyi they are all – humanity forever at the crossroads of life and death; of having ancestors and becoming them.
Consequently, his paintings are like a chorus, both testament and conspiracy; cajoling and cradling; witness and jury and giving voice to the voiceless. They interrogate where resilience meets fragility. As his stories unfold before our eyes, Dyaloyi invites his audience to examine the past and the status quo, and to imagine our possible future.
- Charles Shields
This is Dyaloyi’s 11th solo exhibition at Everard Read and his 25th year of exhibiting at our gallery.
Exhibition concludes 13th DECEMBER 2021
For more information please contact:
tayla@everard.co.za
lulu@everard.co.za
Everard Read Franschhoek
20 Huguenot Road
T: 021 867 2446
www.everard-read-franschhoek.co.za
fgallery@everard.co.za
