In each of her projects, South African artist Lebohang Kganye uses the photograph like a theater stage, building the cast, props and environments to tell stories about her family.
After Lebohang Kganye's mother died at age 49, the South African artist began going through the things she'd left behind as a means to deal with the grief.
Kganye became a time traveler in each photograph, an abstract presence witnessing the events that eventually led to her own life. She seemingly shimmers in and out of existence in group portraits, and she takes the shape of a ghostly double exposure when her mother poses alone. In one image, she reaches out to her own self as a baby, beaming as the younger version of herself takes a step.
" is centered around my grandfather as this man that became like the Pied Piper, who led everyone in my family from the farms," she said.In recording her family's oral histories, she realized how fluid memories are -- how accounts differed by person, or even morphed in their retellings by the same storyteller. So she reflected the sense of dubiousness in her work, with details of each figure obscured by the blackness of silhouettes.
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