EXPOSITION “TWO STORIES OF (HI)STORIES DE L’ARTISTE LEBOHANG KGANYE”

Last update 23/07/2024

Description

In his series Two stories of (hi)stories, six scenes are installed in illuminated diorama boxes. The artist Lebohang Kganye assembles historical photographs by Marie Pauline Thorbecke from the archives of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (Germany), with episodes from Cameroonian history.
Questioning the historical narrative of the German colonialist “masters”, she plays all the roles herself, relying on oral accounts of the history of the Bamum kingdom, and on literary works by Cameroonian authors.

Lebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she lives and works. In her pursuit of the materiality of photography, she uses sculpture, performance, theater and the moving image, exploring personal history and ancestry, resonating with the history of South Africa and of Apartheid. His critical narratives, linked to oral tradition, tell stories of home, refuge, family and identity

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