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Homelands
An exhibition by Tierney Fellowship recipient, Thabiso Sekgala
2010
Homelands is the culmination of over a year’s exploration of memory, place and interrelated self-imagining. It is based in the former homelands, areas defined by the apartheid government for the purposes of confining, defining and disempowering a people; and with subtlety and sensitivity, it considers how people develop place-related identities out of a notorious a past and the complex ways in which people develop nostalgia for histories that could be considered illegitimate.
Sekgala engages concepts of home and how particularly young people establish an understanding of what it means to call a place home and concurrently think beyond it.
About Thabiso Sekgala
21 Jul 1981 – 15 Oct 2014
Thabiso Sekgala was born in 1981 in Johannesburg.. He studied at the Market Photo Workshop in 2007 to 2008 and was awarded the Tierney Fellowship at the Market Photo Workshop in 2010. Sekgala has had solo exhibitions in Johannesburg, Berlin and Brussels and has shown in group shows internationally. In 2013 he had residencies in both the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and at HIWAR/Durant Al Funun, Jordan. His work focuses on South African communities facing the long shadow of apartheid and explores themes of abandonment and memory. Sekgala was part of the collaboration with Kalpesh Lathigra that was the main commission for the The Space for Brighton Photo Biennial 2014 and the Joburg Photo Umbrella, Johannesburg 2014.
Thabiso Sekgala was born in 1981 in Johannesburg.. He studied at the Market Photo Workshop in 2007 to 2008 and was awarded the Tierney Fellowship at the Market Photo Workshop in 2010. Sekgala has had solo exhibitions in Johannesburg, Berlin and Brussels and has shown in group shows internationally. In 2013 he had residencies in both the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and at HIWAR/Durant Al Funun, Jordan. His work focuses on South African communities facing the long shadow of apartheid and explores themes of abandonment and memory. Sekgala was part of the collaboration with Kalpesh Lathigra that was the main commission for the The Space for Brighton Photo Biennial 2014 and the Joburg Photo Umbrella, Johannesburg 2014.
