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I was making work about a period that I never lived in, one involving the collective memory of many family members who had shared their stories with me.

— Lebohang Kganye

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If we are to resist erasure, we must always allow space for the organic.

The reality is that historical documents or other seemingly factual sources are more often than not one-sided.

I am concerned with what photography has been used to represent across the continent, but especially in South Africa.

This idea of the imaginary within memory for me is really important

Its funny,I was with my gran when you called earlier and she was raising this same thing with me-that the ancestors who i spoke with in the work are blessing me.

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