South African–born multidisciplinary artist Pierre Louis Geldenhuys is presented as a new addition to the gallery’s stable, marking a significant homecoming after fifteen years based in Spain.

In a paradoxical gesture, the painter Mohamed Saïd Chair both elevates everyday Moroccan life to the stature of history painting and, in a move worthy of Caravaggio, pulls that very grandeur down from its pedestal. A discerning eye will immediately detect, in the artist’s three large-scale canvases, echoes of iconic masterpieces.