Lebohang Kganye won the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for her exhibition Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home at Foam, Amsterdam in 2023. The prize was accompanied by an exhibition at the Photographer's Gallery in London.
The nominated exhibition's title, “Haufi nyana?” meaning “too close?” in Sesotho, one of South Africa's official languages, explores and reimagines notions of home, belonging, heritage and identity. In the large-scale installation on display at The Photographers’ Gallery, Kganye uses silhouettes and life-sized cut-out figures of her family crafted from images in photo albums. The installation considers the impact of her family’s forced migration, due to land acts and apartheid law, including the alteration of their surname.
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