My mother visiting our ancestors’ graveyard
Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Artwork 2019
Lindokuhle Sobhekwa's photograph 'My mother visiting our ancestors' shows an individual standing in front of two graves with headstones in grassy plain.
Artwork: Lindokuhle Sobekwa, My mother visiting our ancestors’ graveyard (2019). Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag. 66.67 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Lindokuhle Sobekwa Title My mother visiting our ancestors' graveyard Date 2019 Materials Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag Dimensions 66.67 x 100 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

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. 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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