Artists

Lebohang Kganye

Press release

Lebohang Kganye (b. 1990) is a South African artist based in Johannesburg and one of the most talked-about image-makers of her generation. On March 6, she comes to Stockholm with Le Sale ka Kgotso, an exhibition created exclusively for Fotografiska. Visitors are invited to walk through full-scale structure modeled after a Reconstruction and Development Programme” (RDP) house, a South African socio-economic housing program implemented by the government of President Nelson Mandela post-apartheid in 1994. Moving through a series of interconnected rooms, visitors encounter layers of family memory, mythology, and collective storytelling. The exhibition explores the home as both a place of refuge and a site of unease, charged with history and identity.

The installation unfolds as a sequence of five staged scenes, each set in a different room of the house or on the street. These are not static tableaux, but deliberately theatrical constructions. Drawing on South African oral traditions, folklore, and intergenerational storytelling, Kganye’s narratives are less about the past and more about the persistence of belief systems, rituals, superstitions, and communal memories that continue to shape everyday life.

”What photography has always been about is evidence, a tool of evidence. But actually it is also the tool of imaginary, and also linking to memories and how the memory is not factual. A lot of imagination goes in to it” says Lebohang Kganye.