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THE WORK OF SHADOWS
LEBOHANG KGANYE, 23 April - 7 June 2025

THE WORK OF SHADOWS : LEBOHANG KGANYE

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THE WORK OF SHADOWS , LEBOHANG KGANYE

La Patinoire Royale Bach’s museum-like nave is filled with Lebohang Kganye’s large scale installations in The Work of Shadows, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. 

 

The exhibition features four major bodies of work from the artist's recent practice. A Burden Consumed in Sips (2023) is a massive, immersive 22-panel video installation the artist made in Cameroun as she followed a colonial era expedition in reverse: symbolically returning objects that had been extracted. Mosebetsi wa Dirithi (2023-2024) are large-scale textile works that feature monumental scale portraits of the artist’s family members. Keep the Light Faithfully (2022) is a series of diorama lightboxes with layered photographic cutouts of the artist reenacting stories she gathered from oral testimonies of South African lighthouse workers. Mohlokomedi wa Tora (2018) is a large-scale circular installation that brings together four scenes from different parts of the artist’s family tree, an exploration of migration, genealogy and light.

 

The South African artist, (b. 1990) works with expanded photography, video and mixed media to create deeply researched works that layer historiography, theatricality, autobiography and poetics in often sculptural installations. The artist’s name is etymologically linked to the Sotho word for light “kganya” and bringing light and life to layered postcolonial histories is an animating thread in her practice.

 

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Installation Views
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Works
  • Lebohang Kganye, A Burden Consumed in Sips, 2023
    Lebohang Kganye, A Burden Consumed in Sips, 2023
  • Lebohang Kganye, Mohlokomedi wa Tora, 2018
    Lebohang Kganye, Mohlokomedi wa Tora, 2018
  • Lebohang Kganye, Dolly Ngubeni, 2023
    Lebohang Kganye, Dolly Ngubeni, 2023
  • Lebohang Kganye, Esther Matiko Mkhalipi, 2022
    Lebohang Kganye, Esther Matiko Mkhalipi, 2022
  • Lebohang Kganye, Maria Magadeni Mkhalipi, 2022
    Lebohang Kganye, Maria Magadeni Mkhalipi, 2022
  • Lebohang Kganye, Nteli Ngwenya, 2023
    Lebohang Kganye, Nteli Ngwenya, 2023
  • Lebohang Kganye, John Mshayeli Khanye II, 2022
    Lebohang Kganye, John Mshayeli Khanye II, 2022
  • Lebohang Kganye, Shortening Lighthouse, 2022
    Lebohang Kganye, Shortening Lighthouse, 2022
  • Lebohang Kganye, Woman in the Middle of the Night, 2022
    Lebohang Kganye, Woman in the Middle of the Night, 2022
  • Lebohang Kganye, Lighthouse Burials, 2022
    Lebohang Kganye, Lighthouse Burials, 2022
  • Lebohang Kganye, Birds Feasting, 2022
    Lebohang Kganye, Birds Feasting, 2022
Related content
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