Shack of nyaope users is set on fire by an angry group of men that claim they stole their things. Nyaope users are always the first suspects in the communities
Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Artwork 2013
Lindokuhle Sobekwa's monochrome photograph 'Shack of nyaope users is set on fire by an angry group of men that claim they stole their things. Nyaope users are always the first suspects in the communities' that depicts a makeshift house on fire.
Artwork: Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Shack of nyaope users is set on fire by an angry group of men that claim they stole their things. Nyaope users are always the first suspects in the communities (2013). Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag. 40 x 42cm each. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Lindokuhle Sobekwa Title Shack of nyaope users is set on fire by an angry group of men that claim they stole their things. Nyaope users are always the first suspects in the communities Date 2013 Materials Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag Dimensions 40 x 42cm each Credit Courtesy of the artist

From Nyaope, 2014.

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 right, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs ‘Jeannie with her sisters’ and ‘Shack of nyaope users is set on fire by an angry group of men that claim they stole their things. Nyaope users are always the first suspects in the communities’ 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 colour photograph ‘Jeannie with her sisters’ is mounted on the wall. On the right, Sobekwa’s monochrome photograph ‘Shack of nyaope users is set on fire by an angry group of men that claim they stole their things. Nyaope users are always the first suspects in the communities’ is mounted on 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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