Exhibition
Gio x Senayt S.
December 3, 2025 – January 15, 2026
Geneva
FRAGMENTS OF NOW
A group exhibition by Gio and Senayt. S,
Gio sees art not as an escape, but as a return to oneself, a way of rediscovering what remains luminous. Her practice, at the crossroads of painting, design and fashion, explores the tension between fragility and strength, opacity and clarity. Through color, thread, glass or canvas, Gio seeks to reintroduce softness, reintroducing gentleness into a world often in too much of a hurry, transforming beauty into an act of silent resistance.
Senayt S. develops a photographic practice marked by sobriety and silent emotion. Her work explores what we no longer sees, shadows and suspended spaces of everyday life. Her gaze, imbued with gentleness and gravity, rejects immediate narration in favor of presence, that of a tree, a window, a breath. In each image, Senayt seeks to make the invisible perceptible, to translate what remains on the margins, in the in-between of the world.
A Rhythm in the Line.
Throughout his musical career, from Blufunk Is a Fact! (1992) to Captain Rugged (2013), Jones
has used repetition not as a method, but as resistance. His concerts are known for evolving night
after night, each version of a song responding to the room, the crowd, the energy. “I never play
a song the same way twice”, he says. “Because I’m not the same person. And neither are you.”
This belief, that truth is fluid, that identity is performed, not possessed is embedded in his
drawing practice.
The line is everything. It twists, loops, scratches, hovers. It’s muscular and nervous, soft and
sharp. Sometimes we find figures, other times not. There are eyes, limbs, gods, guardians,
tongues, ghosts, lovers or perhaps just shadows. Like a melody improvised on stage, these
works ask not to be deciphered, but felt. They call for attention, for resonance.
And just like his music, they stay with you long after the moment ends.
Climbin the Invisible Ladder
The title evokes a journey without visible steps, a structure you feel rather than see. It is both
ascent and bridge, a way of moving between worlds.
Born in Lagos, raised within the Yoruba tradition, shaped by years in London, now living in Paris,
Keziah embodies a fluid identity that refuses to be flattened. His work reclaims the narrative of
Africa today, inventive, urban, uncompromising, far from the reductive clichés that persist in the
Western gaze.
When music resists, drawing takes over. It becomes a place of exile and refuge, a gesture
powerful enough to affirm his singularity and resist the erasure of difference. Lines unfold like
harmonies, ink marks like scores. In the quiet of drawing, he finds the space to return to melody,
to words, to song.
A Politics of Presence
Keziah Jones has never sought to fit industry expectations. He has never chased markets or leaned into the exoticism so often projected onto African artists. Instead, he occupies the margins — a place of freedom, vulnerability, and resistance. His art doesn’t deliver slogans; it holds contradictions. It insists on being seen without compromise.
TRIBE Gallery, a space for the Untamed
In TRIBE Gallery, Keziah Jones finds more than a venue. He finds resonance. A shared belief that art is not just something to be shown, but something to be lived. To enter The Invisible Ladder is to witness drawing as listening, to oneself, to history, to rhythm, to breath. These works are not sketches; they are traces of moments, maps of spirit and transformation. They ask: What happens when we stop performing identity and start improvising it? What new worlds appear when we no longer need to repeat ourselves? Each mark, like a note struck on his guitar, exists only once. And that is its power.
REFERENCE: BIO_01
SIZE: 80 x 80 cm
FRAMING: Oak wood frame
Modeled paste with applied pigments
REFERENCE: BIO_02
SIZE: 54 x 65 cm
FRAMING: Oak wood frame
Modeled paste with applied pigments
REFERENCE: BIO_03
SIZE: 54 x 65 cm
FRAMING: Oak wood frame
Modeled paste with applied pigments
REFERENCE: BIO_04
SIZE: 54 x 65 cm
FRAMING: Oak wood frame
Modeled paste with applied pigments
REFERENCE: BIO_05
SIZE: 54 x 65 cm
FRAMING: Oak wood frame
Modeled paste with applied pigments
REFERENCE: BIO_06
SIZE: 42 x 50 cm
FRAMING: Oak wood frame
Modeled paste with applied pigments
