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Luan Nel foregrounds what appears at first impression to be a highly diverse selection of paintings and installation. Some of these works featured on his successful, most recent exhibition entitled Séance at the IS Gallery in April 2024 in Stellenbosch. There is of course a performative aspect that lies at the heart of the artist’s work. It lies not only in his capacity to astonish and bewitch us as a maker of poetic images, but to amuse and edify through the person and the gentle mockery of his feminine alter ego, Donatella Visagie. There is of course something here of the wry spirit of …