Ismail Helo's paintings deal with light, channeling
a joyous exuberance at the sunlight in his home and neighbourhood with Gaugin-esque tones and textures.
These qualities can be found in Magician, in which seemingly weightless forms merge, mingle, and intersect with one another to evoke moments of
joyous exuberance, while darker, heavier color and forms move in and out of space.
The note of wild and
joyous exuberance is echoed twice more in these readings.
Not exact matches
This
joyous blend of painterly skill and
exuberance aligns, however obliquely, with a queer politics of embodiment, pleasure, and liberation.