Lebohang Kganye
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Biography
Lebohang Kganye is a photographer from Johannesburg, South Africa. She has exhibited both locally and internationally, at the Johannesburg Art Fair, Goodenough College in London and Maison Rouge in Paris, and received the 2012/13 Tierney Fellowship for her first solo exhibition, Ke Lefa Laka.
Known For
In Pied Piper's Voyage, Lebohang Kganye constructs a visual narrative of animation from black-and-white photographs arranged on wooden panels. Positioned between performance and installation, the work revisits her family history during Apartheid.
Pied Piper's Voyage
Lebohang Kganye’s video was inspired by her visit to the Owl House, created by outsider artist Helen Martins, in Nieu Bethesda, South Africa. The house and land are decorated with fields of ground glass and more than 300 handmade statues of owls, camels, peacocks, pyramids, and people. Villagers there told Kganye elaborate tales about Martins, which she re-created as silhouette cut-outs, each tale playing out as a different scene.