Moshekwa Langa
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Great Jones Alley
Moshekwa Langa is a South African visual artist (b. 1975) whose work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, video, and photography.
He culls materials from his immediate surroundings to record his own history and emotions. Influenced by his upbringing in a rural apartheid-era ‘Homeland’ not included on most maps, Langa actively maps his own autobiography in his work, using significant people, events, and places in his life as a foundation to reflect on physical and psychological borders. Langa's large-scale works on paper are central to this project—often dreamlike in their appearance, they result from the accumulation of ephemeral marks and actions and the mediation of seemingly heterogenous elements. Poetic and sentimental, Langa’s work seeks to create visualisations of events and feelings not translatable to language, and grapple with the slippery qualities of meaning.