La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
My Cherie amour, lovely as a summer day
My Cherie amour, distant as the Milky Way
My Cherie amour, pretty little one that I adore
You’re the only girl my heart beats for
How I wish that you were mine
The romantic and somewhat naïve ‘la, la, la’ of Stevie Wonder’s ‘My Cherie Amour’ (1969), covered by the German-Caribbean disco-pop group Boney M (1985), is one of the connections between the various works in ‘Feed Me, Kiss Me, Need Me’, the solo exhibition by the African American artist Tschabalala Self, curated by Charlotte Crevits. The sound of the video coming from the central space of the CC Strombeek exhibition room helps us to read the three large paintings at the entrance and the sculpture at the end.
By uniting the artist’s recent aesthetic developments, the vi…
