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Lemkus Gallery was established in 2024 with the primary function of the space at present being to house the Residency28 programme, which offers funding and studio space to upcoming local artists. We also provide opportunities to sell and exhibit work in the gallery space and online. The purpose of the programme is to assist the cultivation of sustainable artistic practices by providing artists with the necessary resources and support to further their respective careers.
The gallery also functions as a project space in which exhibit creative work in new and exciting ways.
Lemkus Gallery presents ‘Nostalgia for the Impossible’, a solo exhibition by Mongezi Ncaphayi showcasing works produced during the Residency28 programme. Ncaphayi is a multi-disciplinary artist dealing in abstraction, with a focus on printmaking and painting. With this project, Ncaphayi has pursued a more direct engagement with the political undertones of his previous work; particularly the notion of displacement in the context of pre- and post-apartheid South Africa.
This gesture aligns with the artist’s long-held occupation with notions of rupture, indexed by histories of migration and forced removal, and seeks to solidify the imperatives that belie the visual surface layers of his work. Nostalgia for the Impossible clarifies Ncaphayi’s concern with historical and ongoing anti-black violence, by incorporating research material (literature, music, photography, found objects) through mixed-media collage and installation.These features do not contrast but stand in close relation to Ncaphayi’s background as a jazz musician. The expressive and boundless qualities of jazz, its history of subversion and affinity to resistance movements across the globe, are recalled and reflected by Ncaphayi’s abstract forms.
The exhibition is on display from 03 - 31 October 2024.
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