Kemang wa Lehulere's new exhibition explores SA's fragile memories

02 August 2015 - 02:04
By Sean O'Toole

Artist Kemang wa Lehulere is a bold and enigmatic explorer of South African memory, writes Sean O'Toole Among the many secular rites that define an art career , one poisoned ritual stands out - the plodding dance of meaning that audiences demand of artists. Why this? Why that? In short, and here I only lightly paraphrase Eddie Murphy from the days he wore purple leather: why, why, why?Kemang wa Lehulere, a 31-year-old Cape Town artist born to a Tswana mother and Irish father, is all too familiar...

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