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Lebohang Kganye and Jo Ractliffe in conversation
Join contemporary South African artists Jo Ractliffe and Lebohang Kganye as we explore their work and interests in South Africa’s varied histories.
This online event is held in association with the ‘Photography Now’ display in the V&A Photography Centre, which features recent contemporary acquisitions by both artists. On display until autumn 2025, Jo Ractliffe is presenting a series of photographs from her series 'As Terras do Fim do Mundo' [Land at the End of the World], investigating the legacies of the Border War between South Africa and Angola, and Lebohang Kganye is exhibiting her 2021 animated film, ‘Shadows of Re-Memory’, a fictional history that reveals the power of storytelling in legacies of collective cultural experience.
This is an online event and will be held on Zoom. Booking is essential. Participants will receive a link via email one day before the event.
Jo Ractliffe
Since the 1980s, Jo Ractliffe’s photographs have reflected her ongoing preoccupation with the South African landscape and the ways in which it figures in the country’s imaginary, particularly the violent legacies of apartheid. In a country with a powerful tradition of social documentary, Ractliffe became known for her distinctive photographic approach in photographing places of violence and conflict, drawing attention to the absent and unseen, traces of meaning beyond the evidentiary.
Lebohang Kganye
Lebohang Kganye is a photographer also working with sculptural, performative, theatrical and moving image. Kganye’s work explores themes of personal history and ancestry whilst resonating with the history of South Africa and apartheid. She incorporates the archival and performative into her practice that centres storytelling and memory in the familial experience.