Karabo Moletsane partnership with SHAP SHAP

“It’s the scale for me Introducing my highest solo mural yet with the amazing people at @shap_shap__ in Switzerland (Geneva).

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This is a piece about welcoming hybridity but serves as a reminder to keep your own identity/heritage/culture at the forefront.

Thank you to everyone in Geneva for being so welcoming to my art,

myself and my trash French”

Is what the young illustrator and graphic designer had to say and we couldn’t have been more proud that he’s from our backyard.

We love what Shap Shap stands for in this journey with

SHAP SHAP is a non-profit organisation created in 2015 in Geneva to fight against global inequality and racial and gender-based discrimination through cultural projects. Active in diverse sectors such as culture, equality, diversity and international solidarity, SHAP SHAP is an independent structure creating synergies between these domains to contribute to a better world.

Founded with values such as solidarity which have been central to the history of Switzerland and Geneva, SHAP SHAP is based on international conventions to get rid of all forms of discrimination, the Universal Declaration of human rights as well as the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDG).

SHAP SHAP collaborates with artists and scholars from Geneva and many countries in Africa and South America to offer a hybrid form of creative, diffusion, research and exchange activities under multiple formats such as performances, concerts, DJ sets, street art, public meetings, publications, studies, roundtables, residencies.

These activities aim to:

– Reinforce the artistic, social, political and economic status of artists from the global South[1], outside of formal networks and/or from minority groups, and who must be supported to produce work and emerge on local and international scenes;

– Fight against gender-based inequality, racial discrimination and social and economic injustice;

– Reach out to the greater public, cultural structures and public institutions in Geneva and partner countries with interconnected micro and macro issues with regards to gender, racism, culture, education, economics, human rights and globalisation;

– Foster exchanges and dialogue.

What drives SHAP SHAP is the assertion of a “multiplicity of worlds” as described by Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar. It pushes us to think collectively about a balanced globalised world guaranteeing equal opportunities for all as well as diversity in terms of bodies, narratives and aesthetics in cultural spaces and society in general.

And that clearly communicates with Karabos works as it represents identity, heritage and culture all together

We at The Beau Guide would like to say we’re proud of you and keep winning.