2026-03-30 | Moshekwa Langa: solo exhibition at Stevenson in Cape Town, South Africa

Our fellow Moshekwa Langa is having a solo exhibition, Proxies, at Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa.

From the outset of his career in the 1990s, and throughout his rise to prominence in the 2000s, Langa has been associated with a freewheeling form of artmaking that employs unconventional materials to lyrical ends, his elliptical treatment of his subject matter turning interiority into what art historians have called [‘an] intimate kind of liberating lostness’. Across Proxies, Langa continues in this vein, elaborating on the themes of familiarity and estrangement that have marked his work over recent years, offering new reflections on how memory, imagination and presence function in a psyche’s efforts to locate itself in place and time.

The works on paper in this exhibition were chiefly created over the last two years in Langa’s Amsterdam studio. They collapse distinctions between figuration and abstraction as well as moments in time; some works are prompted by his daily life, others by instances of travel, and others still by events in his childhood in Bakenberg or as a schoolboy in Pretoria. The dogs, trees, cars, landscapes and topographies that characterise the artist’s lexicon recur here in a spectrum of oblique and concrete renderings, the tone of his visual anecdotes echoing that of his reflections.

You can see the exhibition until 9 May

Photo: Gravity (Arone), 2025/26 Mixed media on paper 65 x 50cm @ Stevenson

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