© Lebohang Kganye, courtesy of Afrinova Gallery
© Lebohang Kganye, courtesy of Afrinova Gallery
South African artist Lebohang Kganye was just 20 years old when her mother died in 2010. A couple of years later, Kganye was looking through family photo albums in their Johannesburg home and realised that many of the clothes her mother wore in the pictures were still in her wardrobe.
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Kganye became intrigued. Most of the snapshots were made before she was born in 1990, at her grandmother’s house and on the lawn. Up until then, Kganye explains, the photos and albums were never really all that significant. “I’d go to my grandmother’s house and we’d look at the photos every now and then, and laugh about how they’d aged, the different periods they had gone through,” she says. “We had never gone over individual photos, the history, and the narrative of each.”
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© Lebohang Kganye, courtesy of Afrinova Gallery
© Lebohang Kganye, courtesy of Afrinova Gallery