In Frieze magazine, Eve Hill-Agnus writes on Lebohang Kganye's The Work of Shadows.
South African artist Lebohang Kganye collects children’s books. In their whimsy, she tells me, she finds the space of fantasy and, among other marvels, appreciates the way pop-up books construct themselves ex nihilo. In ‘The Work of Shadows’ – staged in the cavernous, late-19th-century former skating rink that now houses Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach – Kganye has not so much created a book as deconstructed and harnessed its parts – narrative, character, image, materiality – in order to proffer a delicate personal take on theatre, portraiture and colonial politics.
