Nightscapes Johannesburg Exhibition

Nightscapes: Johannesburg, a solo exhibition.

In August 2016, Red Bull Music Academy presented Elsa Bleda's solo exhibition Nightscapes: Johannesburg in Kalashnikovv Gallery which examines the city of Joburg after dark with a series of images taken over the years.

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"Elsa Bleda was born into movement, crossing continents in the turning tides of her mother, the artist. What does it mean to form connections through the heightened beauty of transience? To be half-way down the mercurial street before the light can gather to hold you? Some things may get left behind, remain as spectral after-effects of a vital acceleration into the world, but other things congregate and move with you at your pace; sights and sounds and textures, multiple influences to draw upon in self-definition. Perhaps these rhythms are why she is so drawn to the spaces of Johannesburg’s night- the way they hold the traces of encounters in their quietening reverberations; speak to the tensions of leaving and arriving, and to all the different ways that a life can be lived." - bubblegumclub.co.za