Lawrence Lemaoana

"PRAYERS"
"I DIDN'T JOIN THE STRUGGLE TO BE POOR"

Embroidery on Kanga

 

"DEMO CRAZY" Embroidery on Kanga
Website: www.afronova.com/lawrence-lemaoana

"LEADERS WHO FIST PEOPLE"
"MY FATHER WAS A GARDEN BOY"

Embroidery on Kanga

Lawrence Lemaoana’s body of work has, as its departure point, a fascination with the role of the mass media in present-day South Africa. In Lemaoana’s work, the relationship between the “people” and the media is problematised as a relationship of representation and control. The questions being: Who gets to control modes of representation? and Who gets to represent those in control?

 

PRESENTED BY TAMAR DRESDNER ART PROJECTS
www.tamardresdnerartprojects.com

Courtesy of Afronova gallery, Johannesburg