Moshekwa Langa

Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) is a South African visual artist based in Amsterdam. Quotes It’s interesting to work with things that are kinder to me visually Dust, Beauty And Geography Combine In Moshekwa Langa’s Tropic Of Capricorn (13 December 2019) If I had to explain what I do to someone, to myself if I was not an artist, I would say that I make kind of dreamscapes. I work best if I am thinking about me first, and go outwards. Biography and timeliness in the work of Moshekwa Langa (15 November 2013) Working in the abstract means opening yourself up to myriad interpretations about your work There are easier, clearer and more precise forms of communication and being an artist is not one of them in my view. It is a contested free space As an artist I want my work to be poetic, to reflect on things I find interesting, things that have informed my progressions and regressions, a kind of a capsule of the times I live in I prefer to lead, but I let myself be distracted and led at times I am more excited by the process of discovery and unpredictable situations and outcomes Moshekwa Langa And The Mass Of A Poem 2 May 2016 For me it is interesting to work in that liminal space between losing consciousness of the real and falling into a fantastical wakefulness, of making sense of what is around me, and what I imagine [and] hope to be around me and what I wish to be away from me MOSHEKWA LANGA ‘RELATIVES 23 July 2018 The way that I use names, it is an anchor, it is notes for things I would rather not forget I am not going to stop my process because I shifted my focus I make things that reflect my life and sometimes I make things that reflect other people’s lives and other stories and anecdotes Are we not all in our own ways writing our own biographies from the ways that we choose to interact and not interact with people? ‘NOTES FOR THINGS I WOULD RATHER NOT FORGET’ n.d The way I do things now is I don't have a visual reference. Moshekwa Langa's 'Fitness' (25 October 2025) My work is no longer a catharsis. I have only given a spark of myself. For how long will we be required to unburden our dark past to the world? I find art empty and bombastic. Langa is from another time and place (16 November 2020) External links Category:Artists from South Africa Category:1975 births Category:Living people