‘Kesho Africa’, an exhibition of paintings and photography that just opened at Alliance Francaise in Nairobi is also subtitled ‘Then and now’ making past, present and future important reference points in the artworks.
Yet whichever time-frame the eight artists in the show chose to represent, their works feel less fixed and more fluid than to be stuck in any one period in time. What is more, their art seems transcendent than terrestrial, more imaginative than earthbound.
