Exhibition+Snapshot—Kemang+Wa+Lehulere

Kemang Wa Lehulere Kemang Wa Lehulere is the 2015 recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art. Wa Lehulere works across multiple disciplines including performance, video, painting, drawing, text and installation. His work engages with the spaces between personal narrative and collective history. His visual language of monotone lines and forms and graphic imagery creates fictional narratives that reinterpret and reconfigure historical facts.

“I never wanted to do art.”

“For the longest time I didn’t consider myself as an artist, not because of some juvenile rebellious kind of thing that “Oh, ja, I make art but I’m not an artist,” but I really didn’t consider myself an artist for many, many years and it’s only this year that I kind of thought to myself," "Well, I’m actually an artist.”

-Kemang Wa Lehulere's Award and Exhibition Records- Wa Lehulere Ink on Paper A still Image of //Homeless Song//, 2013 Digital video, duration 31 min 26 sec Classroom Environment //Sometimes All you Get is the Gift Wrap!// 2013,Ink, duct tape, pencil and spray paint on paper, music stands, soap, carpet tiles, porcelain dogs, installation view, Lombard Freid, New York //Reddenung of the greens or dog sleep manifesto//, 2015suitcases, earth, rass, blackboards, salvaged school desks (wood),porcelain dogs, dimensions variable, installation view, to whom it may concern, Stevenson, Cape Town //X,Y,Z,// 2016 Desks take the shape of paper planes, suggesting the paradoxical nature of life in a classroom- repressive but with moments of self-created transcendence. Furthermore the use of tires with wooden crutches slotted within them - suggesting the way in which children use sticks to roll them along - to convey ideas of horror and playfulness. The tires, simulating motion, stillness and abandonment, are watched by porcelain dogs. Another motif that has appeared in several of the artist’s works.

-Articles on Wa Lehulere Download- -Kemang Wa Lehulere's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/kemangwalehulere/?hl=en South Africa

South Africa has one of the continent's biggest and most developed economies. Up until 1994 it was ruled by a white minority which enforced a separation of races with its policy called apartheid. The apartheid government eventually negotiated itself out of power after decades of international isolation, armed opposition and mass protests. The democratically-elected leadership encouraged reconciliation and set about redressing social imbalances.

Capitals Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)  Population 50.7 million Area 1.22 million sq km (470,693 sq miles) Major languages 11 official languages including English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa and Zulu Religions Christianity, Islam, indigenous beliefs Life expectancy 53 years (men), 54 years (women) Currency Rand

Source: South Africa Country Profile, BBC News, bbc.com

-Links to South Africa Information for Students- //TIME for Kids// http://www.timeforkids.com/destination/south-africa/history-timeline

//National Geographic Kids// http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/south-africa/#south-africa-johannesburg.jpg

//SAHO// (Grades 4-12) http://www.sahistory.org.za/classroom

//South African Government Official Website// http://www.gov.za/ -Links to Resources for Teaching on South Africa- //Classroom Resources for Nelson Mandela, Apartheid, and South Africa from NEA (National Education Association)// http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/57530.htm

//Resources for Teaching on South Africa from the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies African Studies Center// http://www.bu.edu/africa/outreach/safrica/ -Links to information on the work of activist and educator Prexy Nesbitt- //Interview with Prexy Nesbitt as part of research for the book// No Easy Victories //(2007)// http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int08_nesbitt.php

//Making the Road trips with Prexy Nesbitt// http://makingtheroad.com/

//Biography of Prexy Nesbitt from The History Makers, the nation's largest African American video oral history collection// http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/prexy-nesbitt-39

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