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Pierre le Riche
In Four Places at Once, 16 February - 28 March 2024

Pierre le Riche: In Four Places at Once

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Pierre le Riche, Searching for Greener Pastures, 2023, Acrylic yarn on polyester and paint (diptych stretched on canvas), 75 x 140 cm. 29 1/2 x 55 1/8 in. (over all), 75 x 70 cm. 29 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (each panel)
Pierre le Riche, Searching for Greener Pastures, 2023, Acrylic yarn on polyester and paint (diptych stretched on canvas), 75 x 140 cm. 29 1/2 x 55 1/8 in. (over all), 75 x 70 cm. 29 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (each panel)
Pierre le Riche (b. 1986, Gqeberha, South Africa) is a multidisciplinary artist working across modes of sculpture and installation, widely recognized for his use of textiles and thread. Identity is woven into and essential to his practice; much of his work has been aimed at confronting themes of colonialism and race, as well as challenging norms and associations around gender and sexuality. For his recent body of fiber-based work, le Riche creates vibrant and provocative figurative tapestries that center his queer identity while reflecting on the complexities of belonging in a contemporary world.
 
Le Riche holds a Master of Fine Arts with distinction from the University of Cape Town and has since worked as a full-time artist, curator, and potter. He has exhibited in solo and group shows across South Africa and abroad, participated in international art fairs, including 1-54 in London and AKAA in Paris, and created installations for global brands such as Daimler and Cartier. His large-scale thread installation Rainbow Rooms has been part of traveling exhibitions in the USA and China since 2018.
  
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  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

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  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

  • Pierre le Riche In Four Places at Once February 16 - March 28, 2024

    Pierre le Riche

    In Four Places at Once

    February 16  - March 28, 2024

Press release

Ronewa Art Projects presents In Four Places at Once, an exhibition of vibrant textile works by Pierre le Riche, opening on February 15, 2024. Le Riche is a South African multidisciplinary artist working across modes of sculpture and installation, widely recognized for his use of textiles and thread. For his recent body of fiber-based work, le Riche creates vivid figurative wall tapestries that center his queer identity while reflecting on the complexities of belonging in a contemporary world.  

 

Identity is woven into and essential to le Riche’s practice; much of his work has been aimed at challenging norms and associations around gender and sexuality and confronting themes of colonialism and white privilege. The group of artworks on show emerged from a period of internal struggle as le Riche acclimatized to a new environment following his move from Cape Town to Aachen, Germany. In this light, le Riche’s choice of tufted yarn as a material, reminiscent of cozy household textiles, feels fitting to conjure a homesick state of yearning and introspection.  

 

Le Riche’s use of craft – elsewhere in his practice he also employs embroidery, sewing, and crochet – tosses out outdated notions of gendered art forms. Through his homoerotic content, le Riche pushes back against the conservativeness of a middle-class, suburban upbringing in Post-Apartheid South Africa. His cartoonish nude figures, some sporting exaggerated genitalia, can be read as playfully provocative and unapologetically gay, testing the boundaries of puritanical sensibilities. Simultaneously, his characters are contorted and dislocated in space, imbued with vulnerability, uncertainty, and longing. 

 

Four drawings included in the exhibition are taken from le Riche’s sketchbook, where his tapestry designs originate. Here, you can sense an artist exploring and refining a new formal language, one of vivid color and bold two-dimensional forms. The drawing ‘In Four Places at Once,’ from which the exhibition takes its title, depicts a figure spliced into multiple abstracted realities, exemplifying the state of mind that inspired le Riche’s new artistic direction. 

 

Please join us at Ronewa Art Projects in Berlin on Thursday, February 15 from 18:00 to 20:00 to celebrate the opening of In Four Places at Once. We’re delighted to announce that the artist will be present at the opening.  The exhibition runs until March 28, 2024. 

 

Pierre le Riche (b. 1986, Gqeberha, South Africa) holds a Master of Fine Arts with distinction from the University of Cape Town and has since worked as a full-time artist, curator, and potter. He has exhibited in solo and group shows across South Africa and abroad, participated in international art fairs, including 1-54 in London and AKAA in Paris, and created installations for global brands such as Daimler and Cartier. His large-scale thread installation Rainbow Room has been part of traveling exhibitions in the USA and China since 2018.

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