Veld fire
Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Artwork 2018
Lindokuhle Sobekwa's photograph 'Veld fire' shows a fire in a grassy plain producing a column of smoke.
Artwork: Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Veld fire (2018). Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag. 41.6 x 28.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Lindokuhle Sobekwa Title Veld fire Date 2018 Materials Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag Dimensions 41.6 x 28.5 cm Credit Courtesy of the artist

From Daleside, 2015–2021.

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. On the left, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs ‘Amakhwenkwe’ and ‘Tsojana bus stop’ are mounted on the wall. In the middle, Sobekwa’s paper and photo collage ‘Mthimkhulu II’ is pasted onto the wall. On the right, Sobekwa’s photographs ‘Bhayi alembathwa lembathwa ngabalaziyo’, ‘Veld fire’ and ‘Zenandi’ are mounted on the wall.
Installation photograph from the ‘Tell it to the Mountains’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. On the left, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs line the gallery walls. On the right, Sobekwa’s paper and photo collage ‘Mthimkhulu II’ is pasted onto the wall.
Installation photograph from the ‘Tell it to the Mountains’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. On the left, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s paper and photo collage ‘Mthimkhulu II’ is pasted onto the wall. In the middle, Sobekwa’s photographs ‘Bhayi alembathwa lembathwa ngabalaziyo’ and ‘Veldfire’ are mounted on the wall.
Installation photograph from the ‘Tell it to the Mountains’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. Two framed photographs by Lindokuhle Sobekwa mounted side by side on the white gallery wall. On the left is ‘Bhayi alembathwa Iembatha ngabalaziyo,’ on the right is ‘Veld fire.’
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