"The body takes on other, poignant textures in the beaded curtain work of the artist Felandus Thames, who lives and works in New Haven, Conn., shown at this gallery based in Paris. The figures are vividly bright in these pieces, with fulsome lips and piercing gazes but also edging toward insubstantiality, as if a stiff wind could partly erase them. Thames’s “African King of Dubious Origins #6,” (2022) is both garish and beautiful. Also at 193, the Nairobi- born photographer Thandiwe Muriu makes images that are so stylistically evolved that it seems she is visiting us from a future moment when one’s dress, hair, makeup, jewelry and clothing are arranged for a daily red carpet stroll."
8 May 2025
