Moshekwa Langa / Thresholds

Goodman Gallery Johannesburg proudly presents Thresholds, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed, South African–born Moshekwa Langa.

Born in 1975 in Bakenberg, Limpopo, Langa left home at age 13 and returns now as an observer, an artist and a cartographer of geographical and psychological history. Thresholds is an intimate document of how past informs present, which in turn informs future; the contrast of a modern man observing the traditional rituals of his birthplace. Thresholds is a photographic and film installation that documents the graduation from initiation rights in the Harmansdal village in Limpopo.

The exhibition is made up of three bodies of work: men’s graduation, women’s graduation and the unveiling of a gravestone. These rites are a point of orientation in a broad story and passage. They situate the viewer and the artist in a biographical history, both personal and collective.