Kemang Wa Lehulere

Kemang Wa Lehulere (born 1984) in Cape Town, South Africa. He is an artist who has a BA Fine Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (2011). Quotes I actually started out doing theatre when I was in high school. I never wanted to do art. I was interested in the phallic symbol. The cigarette as the phallic, and what it represents in relation to male ritual initiation and the construction of manhood back in South Africa. Tthe direction that the Gugulective took was based on the kind of discourses that were taking place… questioning the kind of work that was being made by black artists and being exhibited in the white cubes in the cities and in the museums…questions like ‘What’s the relevance of those discourses within white-dominated spaces?’ It was also out of curiosity about how people in Gugulethu would respond to that type of work that we really began thinking about doing something in Gugulethu. Kemang Wa Lehulere: Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2017,ARTAFRICA (2013) External Links Category:Living people Category:1984 births Category:1980s Category:Artists