Johannesburg

Thabiso Sekgala – Bôna

Jan 25 - Feb 29 2020       163 Jan Smuts Ave, Parkwood
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The latest exhibition to launch at leading contemporary art gallery Goodman, is Bôna, a selection of works from various photo essays captured through the lens of the late photographer Thabiso Sekgala. In particular Sekgala's work interrogated the shaping of identities and the ways in which we see ourselves and each other and he used his camera to create an archive of shifting realities where his subjects would re-imagine themselves within conflicted social spaces.

Works featured in this exhibition include images from the series Homelands (2009-2011), Second Transition (2012) and Running (2013). In the Homeland series, Sekgala captured scenes from the former 'homeland' areas of Kwandebele and Bophuthatswana (part of the apartheid state's system of rural 'homelands' where only black South Africans lived) touching on the differences between the past and the future. In Second Transition he again visited the former homeland of Bophuthatswana to record the economic exclusion and ravaged landscape of the mining settlements in the Marikana region, while in the powerful series Running, he explored the conditions which create a feeling of home for those fleeing conflict and political and economic upheavals in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and in Amman, Jordan.

Opening event Sat Jan 25 at 11:00.
 
Image from the series Running Bulawayo. Photo by Thabiso Sekgala courtesy of Goodman Gallery
 
Photo from the series Running Amman, by Thabiso Sekgala courtesy of Goodman Gallery
 
Thabiso Sekgala - Homelands
A photograph from the Second Transition series (2012). Image by Thabiso Sekgala courtesy of Goodman Gallery

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Every Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat Jan 25 2020 - Feb 29 2020
Goodman Gallery
163 Jan Smuts Ave, Parkwood
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