Mandla
Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Artwork 2018
Lindokuhle Sobekwa's photograph 'Mandla' shows a shirtless individual lying face-up on a stretch of grass.
Artwork: Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Mandla (2018). Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag. Each 53.6 x 53.6 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Lindokuhle Sobekwa Title Mandla Date 2018 Materials Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag Dimensions Each 53.6 x 53.6 cm Credit Courtesy of the artist

From Nyaope Chapter II, 2018.

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, Ernest Cole’s untitled monochrome photograph, Santu Mofokeng’s monochrome photograph ‘Supplication, Johannesburg-Soweto Line’ and David Goldblatt’s monochrome photograph ‘Going home: Marabastad-Waterval route: for most of the people in this bus, the cycle will start again tomorrow at between 2 and 3 am. 1984’ 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 ‘Mandla’ and ‘Brothers fighting’ are mounted on the wall. On the right, Sobekwa’s photograph ‘Jordan and Nadine’ is mounted on the wall.
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