Banele Khoza’s artworks are a Lang Leav poetry collection.
They are the spine of Adele’s every song, feeling before thought, and the title of a bell hooks book.
Like all of these labours in creativity, his artworks tenderly place love at the centre of an extended inquiry into form and feeling.
In vibrantly saturated tones and text, the artist and gallerist’s new virtual exhibition, In My Feels, is a series of digital drawings that pivots on love – and expands in other directions too. It marks two years of BKhz, his gallery in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and also coincides with four years since his first solo show, Temporary Feelings (2016). Khoza’s work has been drenched in the multiple sides, antitheses and echoes of love’s lifeworld for years.