Solar Logos is a solo exhibition by South African artist Faith XLVII presented at Everard Read Gallery.
The exhibition brings together a body of work that reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in symbolism, myth and the relationship between inner experience and the wider cosmos. Through painting and mark-making, Faith XLVII explores how form, colour and gesture can operate as visual languages that connect personal perception with collective archetypes.
Themes in the Exhibition
Across Solar Logos, the artist draws on symbols that have appeared throughout human history, investigating how these forms operate within the psyche. Rather than presenting symbolic imagery as fixed meaning, the works approach them as open structures that invite contemplation.
Circular forms, layered colour fields and abstracted markings recur throughout the exhibition. These visual elements function as portals between the visible and the imagined, suggesting connections between physical experience and mythological or spiritual narratives.
Faith XLVII describes the works as attempts to create “charged images” objects that hold emotional and symbolic resonance rather than simply depicting an external subject.
Process and Approach
The works in Solar Logos emerge through an intuitive studio process guided by reflection and slow experimentation. For the artist, mark-making becomes a way of exploring how thought, feeling and perception might take visual form.
The paintings operate as meditative surfaces where colour, texture and symbolic geometry combine to evoke states of transformation and reflection. Through this approach, the exhibition considers how images can act as bridges between internal and external worlds.
About the Artist
Faith XLVII is known for a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, drawing, installation and public art. Her work often explores themes of spirituality, mythology, ecology and the relationship between human consciousness and the natural world.
Faith XLVII has exhibited widely in South Africa and internationally, and her work frequently engages with symbolic imagery and philosophical reflection.
