Cape Town

STEVENSON is pleased to present INTLANZI, a solo exhibition by Paulo Nazareth.

The artist’s preceding exhibitions have engaged allegories and idioms around birds, plants, and terrestrial creatures; for INTLANZI, he turns towards water, with the title of this show translating from isiXhosa to ‘the fish’. The artist writes:

All animals have a guahu*, a guahu is like a short song that the animal sings. Whether it’s a fish or a lion or a jaguar, all the animals in the world have one. This music says something about the animal, about his or her personality. You have to learn it with the animal, you have to go and listen. It teaches you about a life outside of hierarchy, it tells you that you are also the animal, we exist together.

*Guahu is a very important song for the culture of the Kaiowa people in the south of Mato Grosso do Sul, a people from the Tupi-Guarani language that greatly influences the culture and Portuguese language of Brazil. Since 2012, Nazareth has been moving around the territory coming and going \ back and forth.

The exhibition opens Saturday 17 August 10am to 1pm.