The Mauve Hour
2021
Views of the exhibition
Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France
The mauve hour has got the shadows dancing on the surface of the sand. From its dunes, it shifts the meaning of all things, turns them into liquid and smoke. It sustains them in a form of breathing that lengthens and lengthens again before the expanse of the yellow desert. Mauve has eyes only for those who flee the light. Mauve is elsewhere, somewhere sight won’t carry you far and speech isn’t a thing; when the blunted skyline fades out, affected by the humidity in the air reaching for the sky with the tip of its tongue. At mauve the hour is beautiful. In the darkness, heads are bending down. It forecasts the losses of the grim night to come. On mauve the night falls and, with it, the sky.
The Mauve Hour brings together old and new work by the artist Paul Maheke. In this new exhibition, drawings and objects coexist. Combining sci-fi and self-narration the work explores different states of vulnerability.
In conjunction with Mauve Hour, Paul Maheke presents a solo show, Vanille Bleue at Goodman Johannesburg, Paul Maheke’s first solo exhibition on the African continent in a gallery.
Extract from the exhibition presentation, Galerie Sultana, Paris, France
Interview of Paul Maheke, at the occasion of the exhibiton The Mauve Hour, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, video PROJETS média
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The Mauve Hour, 2021, view of the exhibition, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
Portrait of a Ghost VI, 2021, digital drawing, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
Portrait of a Ghost VI, 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 23 x 34 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
Portrait of a Ghost V 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 144 x 95 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
Portrait of a Ghost V, 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 95 x 144 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The Mauve Hour, 2021, view of the exhibition, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
Portrait of a Ghost IV, 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 46 x 70 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
Portrait of a Ghost IV, 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 46 x 70 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The Mauve Hour, 2021, view of the exhibition, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The Mauve Hour IV, 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 70 x 46 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The Mauve Hour, 2021, view of the exhibition, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The dance floor could never be a story with one voice. The dance floor is packed with stories all pulsating with their own experiences and needs, 2017, installation, six curtains, digital print on fabric, 335 x 185 cm, édition of two, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The dance floor could never be a story with one voice. The dance floor is packed with stories all pulsating with their own experiences and needs, 2017, installation, six curtains, digital print on fabric, 335 x 185 cm, édition of two, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
Portrait of a Ghost VII, 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 69 x 105 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
Portrait of a Ghost VII, 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 69 x 105 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The Mauve Hour, 2021, view of the exhibition, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The Mauve Hour, 2021, view of the exhibition, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The Mauve Hour VI (a devil with no name), 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 60 x 90 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
Portrait of a Ghost VIII, 2021, digital drawing, The Mauve Hour V (double sight), digital drawing, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The Mauve Hour V (Double Sight), 2021, digital drawing, print on diasec, 34 x 23 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
The Mauve Hour, 2021, view of the exhibition, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana
ooloi (O|Oi), 2019, installation, bleach on cotton twill, 400 x 145 cm, view of the exhibition The Mauve Hour, 2021, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France, detail, photo François Deladerrière, Galerie Sultana