Muofhe Manavhela - Sharing Secrets, 2024
Oil on canvas, 46 9/10 × 70 9/10 in | 119 × 180 cm
Rotondwa Muofhe Manavhela, born 2000, is a young multi-disciplinary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
About the painting:
sharing secrets, oil on linen, 2024: On a saturday morning, in the middle of daisyland, the girls decided that would be a good time to do our best (pink) festival makeup. So we all took our makeup bags, and headed over to the bathroom stall. “I saw this trick on tiktok that changed my whole makeup routine” “Do you have a small mirror I can use” “Oh that’s a good lip combo” “Is this foundation yours or mine?” We got caught by passerbyers a few times - “Oh it’s a session in here, I love it”. And in everyone that witnessed it, felt girlhood in its communion. Sharing secrets is to love.
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