Cassi Namoda, Boxing Sisters Visit Venus, 2020

Just two days left to see You’ll Be Old Too One Day. Life Isn’t Always Young and Sweet, Cassi Namoda’s latest exhibition at Los Angeles’ François Ghebaly gallery. The Mozambique-born, US-based artist’s newest paintings expand upon her previous body of lyrical portraits, depicting the nuances of everyday life in post-colonial Mozambique. “Beneath the tangerine moon are sisters,” a poetic text by Namoda and Wesley Harden explains of these characterful, pugilistic siblings, “smaller moons of peach and seafoam, jostled from the hideaways of their orbit into a battering dance. The planet Venus is their umpire.”