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Matinee: Kganye's 'The Sea is History'
10 February 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 539th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Lebohang Kganye's The Sea is History.
This 2:51 video from Brundyn Arts and Culture introduces the upcoming exhibition The Sea is History by contemporary photographer Lebohang Ganye at the Boschendal Estate. The exhibit will include the unveiling of large-scale pop-up sculptures on the historic grounds with a solo exhibition inside.
Born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she currently resides, Kganye explores themes of personal history and ancestry in the context of the history of South Africa and apartheid. She draws upon her family archive to re-enact stories of home, refuge, family and identity.
Ganye combines photography with sculpture to tell her stories. Designing the pieces and making the large prints from family archival material is her job. But turning them into sculptures falls to Martin Wilson, the founder of Hylography.
Hylography is a design studio in Cape Town specializing in the development of custom 3D-objects, including product prototypes, machinery and artworks, among other things.
Wilson explains how he collaborates with Ganye, who explains her creative process, in making her 2D photographs, where the viewer is locked into the photographer's point of view, into a 3D experience.
In a three-dimensional space, Wilson explains, the viewer can take whatever vantage point on the piece they like. It's quite a challenge to make multiple vantage points, including top down, work.
The creation of these 3D scenarios is a fascinating process in itself but even this engaging video can't convey the experience.
The Sea is History opens Feb. 11.