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Lebohang Kganye
Lebohang Kganye is a visual artist and photographer from Johannesburg, South Africa, where she currently lives and works.
Although primarily a photographer, her interest in the materiality of photography is ongoing and explored in myriad ways through her use of the sculptural, performative, theatrical and the moving image. Kganye’s work has explored themes of personal history and ancestry whilst resonating with the history of South Africa and apartheid, specifically by incorporating the archival and performative into a practice that centers storytelling and memory as it plays out in the familial experience. While her work may resonate with a particularly South African experience, it critically engages with oral tradition as form and memory, as a tangible source material. Kganye mainly uses her family archive to explore and re-enact notions of home and belonging and employs narrative to tell stories of home, refuge, family and identity.
Lebohang Kganye is currently completing her Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. She studied fine arts at the University of Johannesburg (2016) and photography at the Market Photo Workshop (2011). Kganye is the recipient of the Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize, 2024 for her exhibition Haufi Nyana? I’ve Come to Take you Home, which took place at FOAM, Amsterdam (2023). Other notable recent awards include the FOAM Paul Huf Award, 2022, Grand Prix Images Vevey, 2021/22 and Camera Austria Award, 2019.
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