NOTEBOOKS & POLAROIDS
Galerie de la Clé is pleased to welcome ‘Blufunk is a Fact’ Keziah Jones for an exploration of the private notebooks from his album ‘Black Orpheus’.
Keziah Jones opens a door into his creative process. From the Greek myth of Orpheus to Marcel Camus’s film ‘Orpheo Negro’, Keziah Jones channels the humidity of the ‘Orpheo Negro’ myth and transforms it into ‘Black Orpheus’ in 2003 to create an incandescent work. It is from the writings sketched in his private journal that he composed his eponymous album.
Galerie de la Clé invites you to discover the man behind the artist and to capture the colors of his music. Beyond his writings and his sketches, Keziah Jones resonates in the eternity of ‘Blue Funk’.
“I make music out of images. These images, whether visual, sonic, mental or literal, I compile them in notebooks.
I started keeping notebooks containing my thoughts and ideas since around I was eight-years-old. When I was sent away from Lagos, Nigeria to be “educated” in the UK, I used to have a compulsive need to notate and write everything down in order to have a record or proof of “self” but I am much better now, thanx God !
This exhibition is a collection of images pulled out of notebooks from the time I was composing and writing my “Black Orpheus” album. It shows the writing process behind the music.”
Paris, November 2025
