Moshekwa Langa | A Collective Diary
Collage and mixed media, 2004-9
Moshekwa Langa was born more than a decade before the official end of apartheid. As a black South African, he experienced first-hand the injustices of racial segregation and the effects of the vast government program known as “grand apartheid.”
The traumas associated with racism, dislocation, displacement and alienation are themes in Langa’s autobiographical work, though he is careful to avoid the documentary impulse and political polemic. The artist works with images filtered through memory and tinged with sentiment and nostalgia. Moshekwa Langa developed his own composite and astute arsenal of photos taken from family albums maps he has collected, pages ripped from rough notebooks and pages stolen from the directory.
