Tell It to the Mountains, with the artists Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Mikhael Subotzky, opens at A4 Arts on Thursday 21 October at 6pm – 8pm
The installation was unexpectedly halted in December last year – when A4 Arts closed due to a fire that damaged their building. This occasion marks their reopening to the public.
“Sobekwa and Subotzky’s decision to exhibit together recalls an earlier instance of two photographers and friends showing together. In 1989, Santu Mofokeng and Paul Weinberg, both members of the photographic collective Afrapix, jointly exhibited work under the title Going Home. Their project emerged out of a personal conversation. “We ended up asking ourselves what does it mean for each of us when we say: ‘I am going home.’ What does this mean in a society like South Africa?” Mofokeng’s question is not isolated in time; it remains urgent, indeed central to South Africa and its tradition of socially engaged photography.” – Sean O’Toole
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A4 Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit laboratory for the arts that invites practitioners to innovate and iterate, offering the support of our curatorial studio.
WHAT: Tell It to the Mountains | Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Mikhael Subotzky
WHERE: A4 Art, 23 Buitenkant Street, District Six, Cape Town, 8001
WHEN: opening 21 October – 6pm–8pm. 22 October–20 January weekdays 10am–5pm
INFO: T +27 010 880 2595 | E info@a4arts.org
PHOTO: Lindokuhle and Mikhael preparing their collaborative print Tell It to the Mountains (2020) titled for the exhibition, at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg last month.
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