For its first participation in the Drawing Now Art Fair, which will be held in Paris from March 21 to 24, 2024, Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present a solo show by Roger Ballen, a major artist of the contemporary scene, featuring around twenty redrawn and painted Polaroids, as well as a series of prints that will be shown for the first time in France. Originally from America and based in Johannesburg, South Africa, since the early 1980s, Roger Ballen explores marginality, strangeness, the relationship between humans and the animal world, and universal archetypes of the psyche. In enclosed universes, saturated with drawings, graffiti, but also suspended threads, where the wall is essential in the construction of the image, stories unfold that disrupt our gaze and explore the depths of the human condition. As mysterious as they are explicit, Roger Ballen's works are intended to be revealing moments allowing the viewer to grasp what remains inexplicable.
His photographic work, particularly his early series taken in South Africa, was the subject of an exhibition, Enigma, at Les Douches la Galerie in autumn 2023.
