This work has been kindly donated by the artist

Lebohang Kganye’s artistic practice revolves around her interest in photography, performance, theatre and literature. She incorporates tꦕhe archive and orature as source materials in order to tell stories and revisit memories that play out in the familial experience. The act of remembering through imagi🌳ned narratives evokes a set of enquiries in which both subjective and shared histories play a key role.

Her voice muffled by the soil (2022) is part of a photographic series In Search for Memory, of miniature cut-outs arranged within sets done in the style of pop-up books or shadow theatres. Reinterpreted from Malawian writer Muthi Nhlema’s short story Ta O'Reva, Kganye portrays a hypothetical future in which Nelson Mandela returns to a South Africa destroyed by xenophobia and a genetically modified virus. The artist play several roles integrated into the scene of several photos taken during successive trips to old industrial ar📖eas between Pretoria and Johannesburg. In Search for Memory dramatises the impact of big history on small stories, both familial and personal, and reflects on how we construct and articulate our memories.