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christine sefolosha was born in montreux, switzerland and lived 9 years in south africa as young adult in the 70. she lives and works in her studio in montreux. christine sefolosha paints shadows and spirits. in her animal imagery - fluid paintings made with mud, tar, pigment, ink, and chalk - what emerges is not a creature but its essence; not a visage, but power. sefolosha's work evokes myth, metaphor, and ancient stories, casting her as griot of her own timeless tribe. In many african tribes, such a person is viewed as far more than a storyteller, she is a tangible link to the past, someone alive in your midst that can touch you with stories and revelations about who you are as a person. in the very earliest time, when both people and animals lived on earth... there was no difference. all spoke the same language (netsilik eskimo). over time, many humans collectively "forgot" that watching and listening was the path to communication. In contemporary urban society. people are delighted and surprised by stories of humans who can communicate with animals; others know it has always been possible. it is likely that, just a few centuries back, as divergent cultural groups encountered one another, those who spoke in factual terms thought that the idea that one could converse with animals was - and by extension those who had it - crazy. those that had a far broader definition of "talk" thought the other men pitiful. sefolosha paints bone, fur, flesh, and spirit enmeshed in the same plane. bird is mammal is reptile is ghost. a sense of a distant, lost time saturates the images. sefolosha's images are suffused with hope. reaching deep into the depths of inky pools, she finds rot the buzzard and hyena, but the caribou and the crane. leslie umberger extracts from the book "phantome" traducted by catherine Vaughan |
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