iFotografiska Stockholm · Södermalm
Lebohang Kganye: Le Sale ka Kgotso
This exhibition has ended.
South African artist Lebohang Kganye's immersive installation on home, myth and memory.
Museum websiteIn one scene, a man sweeps a street meticulously, which Kaltblut read as a ritual of spiritual upkeep. It is one of five scenes Lebohang Kganye has staged around a life-size RDP house, the low-cost homes South Africa began building under Mandela in 1994.
You walk through the house room by room. Its walls are aluminium and steel photo-sculptures, and the scenes come from township stories Kganye grew up with, many "very bizarre": a family tangled up with a giant rat and an old woman, a candlelit room where closeness turns menacing. The title means "stay in peace" in Sesotho, but mispronounced slightly it calls up the tokoloshe, a dangerous spirit. Anyone who has tried to say "sju" to a Swede knows how much one sound can carry.
Musée Magazine, reviewing the Berlin showing, called it "an essay in space and material". It closes on 18 October. Entry is included in the 195 SEK ticket, and Fotografiska is open until 23:00 daily.
Look for
The RDP house
Look at the walls as you walk through: the whole life-size house is built from aluminium and steel photo-sculptures, solid and cracked at once.
Whispers in the Air
Out on the street, a man sweeps with meticulous care, an everyday chore staged as a ritual of spiritual upkeep.
Night's Unwavering Resolve
A family caught up in the ties between a giant rat and a mysterious old woman, staged as one room of the house.
Draped in Shadow
A candlelit scene where intimacy and danger sit side by side in the flickering light.
Good for
- Dates
- Evening Visits
Skip if
You want framed photographs on walls: this is a walk-through staged installation.
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- Fotografiska StockholmJulian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- City FacesCourtesy of Stockholm City Museum (Stadsmuseet)
- Byggfenomen: The First and Last Thing We SeeCourtesy of ArkDes
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian – Tehran/New YorkCourtesy of Moderna Museet
- Stockholm City Museum (Stadsmuseet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ArkDesMarco Cappelletti, CC BY 4.0
- Moderna MuseetHolger Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0