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. ...
Bremond Capela’s program is conceived as a living narrative, where each exhibition becomes a chapter that reflects and questions the transformations of our time. The gallery brings together artists whose work addresses themes such as identity, migration, feminism, and technology, alongside broader cultural, political, and aesthetic concerns.
This vision also engages with more canonical questions of art history, from the renewed role of painting to the ways traditional forms can be reactivated today. The program unfolds as a sensitive and evolving
chronicle of contemporary life. Artists, whether emerging
or established, act as witnesses and storytellers, offering
new anthropological perspectives that enrich an ever-expanding narrative of the present.
Bremond Capela was founded from the combined experience of Mathieu Capela, co-founder of cadet capela, and Martin Bremond’s years within major international galleries ...
