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The Namib, Namibia
Artist: Santu Mofokeng
Review: Santu Mofokeng, ‘A Metaphorical Biography’
By HOLLAND COTTER MAY 7, 2015 Santu Mofokeng’s 1996 photograph “Easter Sunday Church Service,” from his series “Chasing Shadows.”CreditThe Walther Collection and Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, Johannesburg Our art galleries often give us what our museums should but don’t, as is the case with this small yet chronologically comprehensive survey of work by the South African photographer […]
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Santu Mofokeng
Mofokeng’s deviation from conventional subject matter includes photographic enquiries into spirituality, an interest that has continued throughout his photographic career and produced the extraordinary, evocative series Chasing Shadows. His explorations of landscape invested with spiritual significance form part of a wider enquiry into space and belonging, the political meaning of landscape. His work, in which […]
‘Birkenau – KZ2. Poland: The lake where the ashes of cremated inmates were thrown’
‘South Beach Replacing of the sand washed away during the floods and wave action Durban’
‘Birkenau-KZ2 Poland. Waiting area in a grove of birch trees for inmates condemned to the gas chamber. These include Jews, Gypsys, political prisoners, criminals, some Jehova’s witnesses and people generally considered to be inferior. 1997/8’
