L'etranger opens at Thapong

The Alliance Franaise Gaborone and Thapong Visual Arts Centre are on Friday opening a paintings exhibition by Cameroonian artist Justice Gaga at the Alliance Francaise centre in Gaborone.

The exhibition opens at 6pm.
The exhibitor, Justice Gaga, is a Cameroonian artist who has been awarded a prize by the French cultural agency "Culturesfrance" and thereby given a grant to do an art residency in Botswana. She has been working at Thapong Visual Arts Centre for the last three months and is now presenting her work.

According to a news release from the Alliance Francaise, Gaga's hybrid human evocations are the signs of new identities, often transitory, which  populate cities. Her recurrent personality searches for problems, translates her needs to understand human nature, it questions itself, and it questions us. In the urban space, it resists like its creator.

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