MARELI LAL
KLûK CGDT

Mareli Lal (b. 1978, Cape Town, South Africa) is a contemporary photographer and visual artist who currently lives and works in Cape Town. Lal enjoys the freedom of photography as a medium vested in but independent of fashion. Her photographic practice sits comfortably in a contemporary zeitgeist of international women photographers who use colour, narrative and forms of fashion photography to tell personal stories. For Lal, this terrain of the female body in photography becomes a playground for her own deeply personal narrative shaped by the consumption of historical fashion photography, cinema and the unique experience of globalisation in a South African context. This collaboration with KLûK CGDT is a serendipitous encounter, a mixing of fashion as art and fashion photography. Instead of pulling exclusive focus, Lal and KLûK CGDT’s works complement one another, each reflecting the colour, art, exploration and unconventionality in the other– creating a veritable magic garden of design, innovation, and glamour to be explored.