Dates: May 17-31, 2021
Venue: Alliance Française
About
To many of Kenya’s youth in the mtaa, ‘the hoods’, boxing provides an essential outlet from everyday struggles of life. A possibility to secure a better future.
Through this series of photos, Tobin Jones exposes the fragile state of the sport in Kenya since its heady days of the 1980s and 1990s when Kenya produced gold medalists in the All-Africa Games, the Commonwealth Games, and the Olympics.
There is a Time and a Place: A solo exhibition by Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser.
Dates: Until 11 June 2021
Venue: Circle Art Gallery
About
Circle is pleased to present There Is a Time and a Place, the first ever solo exhibition for emerging Kenyan artist Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser (b. 1995).
Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser is a multidisciplinary artist working across various media living and working in Nairobi. Fraser studied Fine Art at Kenyatta University. Previous exhibitions include I Will See What I Want to See, 2019 at Circle Art Gallery; If Not Now, 2018 at Cave Bureau, Nairobi; Line: The Basic Element, 2018 at One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi; Stranger Times, 2017 at Circle Art Gallery; Anatomy of Me, 2017 at The Art Space, Nairobi.
Fraser uses drawing as a means to engage with the world around him through a varied approach that includes observational sketching, plant pressing, digital image collection and writing. This multifarious set of activities presents a unique opportunity to activate his interaction with his environment. This interactivity with the world strives towards a more internal and intuitive “knowing”, a knowing born less of experience and learning and more of dreaming.
In his first solo exhibition, Fraser works through drawing to complicate meaning as well as create new relationships between objects and ideas by utilizing slowness, bodily awareness and careful observation. Elements in the drawing field are allowed to take up the same quality of space, eschewing the various contexts they would typically exist in. The composition of the drawing field itself is broken down so that one’s conventional approach to looking at and understanding it is revised. The drawings are energetic and enigmatic and in this way encourage the viewer to participate actively in the processes the artist himself uses.
Fraser invites the viewer to consider the transformation, big or small, brought on by even the slightest shift in the conditions under which we encounter, or are presented with an object. This process of de-contextualization – sometimes subtle, other times abrupt – is aided by repetition of certain motifs and objects within and across several compositions. This gesture extends them across space and time. The reiteration and multiplication stretches the distance between the initial and final encounter with an object within the work. In doing so, it engenders a slowing down and increased attentiveness to these groups of interactive symbols and how they function according to the illogic of Fraser’s environments. In these works, the artist emphasizes the contingent nature of meaning, highlighting how our reading of objects is dependent on their relationships with other objects, with space, and with time.
The works in this exhibition combine drawing as description and analysis with drawing as an act of conjuring. Fraser performs a visual alchemy, his mystifying mises en scene inviting the viewer to follow along as he traverses a dreamlike space where meaning, while unstable, is always lurking just around the bend.
In line with social-distancing rules Covid-19 safety restrictions, viewing of the exhibition is by appointment only. Please use the link below to book a time slot.
Jonathan Fraser’s solo exhibition, book appointment on ARTSVP
Dates: May 6-16, 2021
Medium: Online
https://freiburger-filmforum.de/en/home-2/
Some of the featured Kenyan films include: The Letter, Coachez, If Objects Could Speak and Tales of the Accidental City.
About
With 30 films stretched over 10 Days, the 2021 edition will take a closer look at a broad variety of socio-cultural topics: everyday lives, working conditions, experiences of migration, consequences of economic growth and questions of diverse cultural identities. Next to feature documentaries and fictions from established filmmakers, the students’ platform will present a careful selection of debut films from all over the globe that are deeply personal, sensitive and committed to a cause. Some of the featured Kenyan films include: The Letter, Coachez, If Objects Could Speak and Tales of the Accidental City
For the first time, this year’s edition allows us to watch online and discuss films together from various corners of the world, which has resulted in the addition of an exciting new facet to the festival: #FIFOJUNCTIONS! Partnering with DAP (Documentary Association Pakistan) and our friends from DocuBox in Nairobi, Kenya, we will use this opportunity to screen films simultaneously in these locations and discuss them from multiple perspectives.
In addition to this collaboration with our partners in Kenya and Pakistan, other highlights from our program include: a panel on colonial heritage in Kenya and Germany, a workshop on Chinese weavings, a historic radio piece on the banlieues of Paris and a participative performance on African orature.
Throughout the festival – from May 6 to May 16 – all films will be available to screen from home and will be free to view in Kenya. As the films will be live streamed from our cinema to your living rooms, they can be watched simultaneously worldwide. Following the live stream, there is also the opportunity for all viewers to participate in live, post-screening film discussions via zoom.
Dates: May 6-16, 2021
Medium: Online
https://freiburger-filmforum.de/en/home-2/
Some of the featured Kenyan films include: The Letter, Coachez, If Objects Could Speak and Tales of the Accidental City.
About
With 30 films stretched over 10 Days, the 2021 edition will take a closer look at a broad variety of socio-cultural topics: everyday lives, working conditions, experiences of migration, consequences of economic growth and questions of diverse cultural identities. Next to feature documentaries and fictions from established filmmakers, the students’ platform will present a careful selection of debut films from all over the globe that are deeply personal, sensitive and committed to a cause. Some of the featured Kenyan films include: The Letter, Coachez, If Objects Could Speak and Tales of the Accidental City
For the first time, this year’s edition allows us to watch online and discuss films together from various corners of the world, which has resulted in the addition of an exciting new facet to the festival: #FIFOJUNCTIONS! Partnering with DAP (Documentary Association Pakistan) and our friends from DocuBox in Nairobi, Kenya, we will use this opportunity to screen films simultaneously in these locations and discuss them from multiple perspectives.
In addition to this collaboration with our partners in Kenya and Pakistan, other highlights from our program include: a panel on colonial heritage in Kenya and Germany, a workshop on Chinese weavings, a historic radio piece on the banlieues of Paris and a participative performance on African orature.
Throughout the festival – from May 6 to May 16 – all films will be available to screen from home and will be free to view in Kenya. As the films will be live streamed from our cinema to your living rooms, they can be watched simultaneously worldwide. Following the live stream, there is also the opportunity for all viewers to participate in live, post-screening film discussions via zoom.
