Warwick Junction gets a face-lift
Since June, Artist Faith47 has been transforming several giant pillars that support the N3 fly-over near the Early Morning Market in Warwick Junction.
Beautiful portraits in black and gold grace the concrete columns.
Traditional healer, MaDlamini, is one of Faith47’s muses for the project. She now stands tall on one of the pillars.
“I couldn’t come in and paint what I wanted to paint – like my own fantasies,” the artist explains in a teaser video clip about the project. “It needed to be something that is very specifically relevant to the people who are living and working here, because it really belongs to them.”
Faith47’s work is one of the fringe projects that form part of the 25th World Congress on Architecture, UIA2014, happening in the city at the moment.
Warwick on the upgrade with @faithfourseven @UIA2014Durban @streetscene031 @durbanxperience #ThisisDurban pic.twitter.com/LYDuWVXhuz
— Kierran Allen (@KierranAllen) June 29, 2014
Downtown #durban #faith47 @UIA2014Durban #magic #warickjunction pic.twitter.com/hB0QOuk7lz
— Karen Van Pletsen (@tequiladiva) June 28, 2014
#durban #golden #faith47 @UIA2014Durban pic.twitter.com/yRkz3bilxE
— Karen Van Pletsen (@tequiladiva) June 28, 2014
Find out more about Faith47 here.
(Thumbnail image: Via Facebook.com/KierranAllenPhotography/)