Extracts from “The Flâneur” series
The series captures my pictorial notes from immersive walks through new spaces and landscapes, documenting mundane observations.
Flâneur (noun): a person who walks through the city in order to experience it. Originally coined by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), the term refers to someone who observes the city and its surroundings through physical strolling, as well as through a philosophical way of thinking and seeing—feeling the world as they move through it.
Seretse Moletsane (ZA)
Seretse Moletsane is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator. Moletsane’s work is conceptually rooted in intuitive art and tapping into spirituality, African customs and heritage. He currently works notably in the medium of soil, cow dung and marela - a brightly coloured powder paint used by traditional muralists, to explore the rich heritage of abstraction within Southern Africa.
Seretse Moletsane was born in 1981 in Soweto and currently lives and works in Pretoria, South Africa. He obtained his B-tech degree in Fine and Applied Arts in 2008 at Tshwane University of Technology, with printmaking and painting as subjects. He was a participant of the first MTN young curators programme in 2002, and in 2015 was selected as a finalist for the SA Taxi Award (top 10). In he 2021 was selected as a Javett Art Centre Visionary Award finalist (top 5).
