The artist’s paintings vibrate with animated color and dynamic marks,
thick surfaces give way to create dreamlike and expressive
compositions, pictorial plains which examine the private interior
and socio-political conditions under which we establish, form and
adapt our identities. Living in Paris but having lived and worked
between the United States and South Africa, their work draws
inspiration from traditions of storytelling, queer cultural practices,
art history and personal memories, coalescing into divergent
perspectives upon our social and political landscapes.
Daniels subject matter revolves largely around Johannesburg and its
subversive queer communities, weaving together vibrant irreducible
narratives as a means of exploring the generative ways in which we
mourn, heal and conjure life within the seemingly improbable
worlds’ we inhabit together. ...
