Galerie Tschudi

Zürich

1 APRIL - 20 MAY 2023

Kemang Wa Lehulere

To Every Earth its Blood

The exhibition’s teaser image

Location

Rämistrasse 5
8001 Zurich · Switzerland

Date

1 APRIL - 20 MAY 2023

Artists

Kemang Wa Lehulere

Texts

  • Press release: EN DE

“.. it is only in our memory that this is our land.” – Mongane Serote

The work of Kemang Wa Lehulere (*1984) engages with the history of his home country, South Africa, in a space situated between tracing personal histories and historical events. In the exhibition To Every Earth Its Blood, Kemang Wa Lehulere explores the psychological dimension of ideologies in education, the effects of repression and the erasure of collective memory. The artist creates haunting visual narratives that he subjects to an ongoing process of revision and reconstruction.

Exhibition Views

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

Return to Sender, 2023

suitcase, earth, grass, porcelain dogs,
52 × 110 × 70 cm

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

Return to Sender, 2023

suitcase, earth, grass, porcelain dogs
52 × 110 × 70 cm

Vowels (detail), 2023

bronze, brass
130 × 30 × 30 cm (each)
1/3

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

Vowels, 2023

bronze, brass
130 × 30 × 30 cm (each)
1/3

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

Vowels (detail), 2023

bronze, brass
130 × 30 × 30 cm (each)
1/3

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

Vowels (detail), 2023

bronze, brass
130 × 30 × 30 cm (each)
1/3

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

Library 1, 2021

Wood from salvaged school desks
70 × 64 × 48 cm

Library 10, 2021

Wood from salvaged school desks
30 × 32 × 23 cm

Library 12, 2021

Wood from salvaged school desks
32 × 35 × 26 cm

Library 5, 2021

Wood from salvaged school desks
52 × 30 × 20 cm

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

To Every Earth its Blood 4, 2022

Library 1, 2021

Library 10, 2021

Library 12, 2021

Library 5, 2021

To Every Earth its Blood 1, 2022

To Every Earth its Blood 8, 2022

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

The Mutation 1, 2020

To Every Earth its Blood 3, 2022

To Every Earth its Blood 7, 2022

To Every Earth its Blood 2, 2022

To Every Earth its Blood 6, 2022

To Every Earth its Blood 4, 2022

Library 1, 2021

Library 10, 2021

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

Library 5, 2021

Wood from salvaged school desks
52 × 30 × 20 cm

To Every Earth its Blood 1, 2022

ink and oil on paper
87,7 × 66,7 × 3,5 cm (framed)

To Every Earth its Blood 8, 2022

ink and oil on paper
87,7 × 66,7 × 3,5 cm (framed)

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Kemang Wa Lehulere

Erf, 2021

ink on paper
Diptych, 42 × 29 cm / 50.5 × 37 cm each (framed)

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