"Thabiso Sekgala: Here Is Elsewhere" Exhibition & Talk
©Thabiso Sekgala. Homeland, Nklele Machika or Mary Koketse, Sehoko, former Bophuthatswana. 2011
HENI Project Space, Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London
Exhibition Opening: 28 August 2019
Duration: 28 Aug - 06 Oct 2019
Discussion: 5 October 2019 at 17h00
John Fleetwood and Hayward Gallery Assistant Curator Tarini Malik
Dan Graham Waterloo Sunset Pavilion, Hayward Gallery.
This free HENI Project Space exhibition explores home, intimacy, place and belonging in the work of late South African photographer Thabiso Sekgala.
On the occasion of the exhibition Thabiso Sekgala: Here Is Elsewhere at Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space, John Fleetwood and Hayward Gallery Assistant Curator Tarini Malik will join in conversation on Saturday 5 October at 5pm.
Reflecting on Sekgala’s foundational years at The Market Photo Workshop during Fleetwood’s tenure there as Director, the discussion will also cover Sekgala’s influence on the development of post-Apartheid photography.
Here Is Elsewhere – Sekgala’s first solo exhibition in the UK – brings together 50 photographs from six different series taken between 2009 and 2014 in South Africa, Jordan and Germany.
Many of Sekgala’s photographs – which include portraits, street scenes and elegiac depictions of public and domestic space – offer nuanced, alternative narratives about life in contemporary Africa.
Running through all of his work is a fascination with the idea of home, and the personal, political or economic conditions that determine our relationship to it.
Thabiso Sekgala (b. 1981, Johannesburg, South Africa; d. 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa) held solo exhibitions in South Africa and Europe and has exhibited in group shows internationally, including LagosPhoto Festival (2015), Bamako Biennale (2015) and Les Rencontres D’Arles (2013).
More information: Southbank Centre - Hayward Gallery
Posted 27 Aug 2019