Kwa Ta Mneija
Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Artwork 2021
Lindokuhle Sobekwa's photograph 'Kwa Ta Mneija' shows a sheep and a lamb standing on steps at the base of a door leading into a building.
Artwork: Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Kwa Ta Mneija (2021). Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag. 40 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Lindokuhle Sobekwa Title Kwa Ta Mneija Date 2021 Materials Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag Dimensions 40 x 50 cm Credit Courtesy of the artist

From Ezilalini (The country), 2018–ongoing.

This photograph was included in Tell It to the Mountains, an exhibition by Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Mikhael Subotzky. During his residency at A4 in the year preceding the exhibition, Sobekwa restaged discrete images from his photographic archive, extending his reflections on fragmentation and estrangement to formal strategies of display and storytelling. The resulting ‘umngqameko’ or ‘horizon line’ offered both a compositional device and an opportunity to trace the artist’s thematic preoccupations across time and place, particularly those of belonging and ‘unbelonging’ as transcribed in the landscape. Since developing this strategy at A4, Sobekwa has continued to plot his horizon line across multiple installations, including his solo presentation at Huis Marseille in 2022.

b.1995, Katlehong; works in Johannesburg.

Installation photograph from the ‘Tell it to the Mountains’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. At the back, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs are mounted on a moveable wall. On the left and right, Sobekwa’s photographs are mounted on the gallery walls.
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