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Lemaoana, LawrenceAFRONOVA GALLERY

Born 1982 in Johannesburg, South Africa
Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa

Lawrence Lemaoana, Fools multiply when Wise Men are Silent, 2019, Embroideries on Kanga, 157 x 117 cm. Courtesy AFRONOVA GALLERY  

Lawrence Lemaoana is a Johannesburg-based artist, producing graphic fabric works that critically engage with mass media in present-day South Africa. Seeing the relationship between media and the ‘people’ as inherently problematic, he identifies and repurposes existing control apparatuses using his trademark cynicism. Lemaoana’s embroidered works are emblazoned with appropriated political dictums woven in kanga fabric – a material with its own complex ancestry. Here, Lemaoana wages criticism on the agency of local media, and its ability to shape social consciousness: the result turns didactic and propagandistic tools on their head. Lemaoana’s recent exhibitions include Tous, les sang-mêlés, Musée d’art Contemporain du Val de Marne (MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine (2017); Le Jour qui vient, Galerie des Galeries, Paris (2017); Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2017) and The Art of Disruptions, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2016).

Selected Artists

Gaba, Meschac

Boua, Armand

Chihota, Virginia

Yéanzi

Viktor, Lina Iris

Tsegaye, Michael

Mejri, Thameur

Aikman, Jake

Artists 2017

  • A

    • Aboudia
    • Adams, Derrick
    • Aikman, Jake
    • Andrialavidrazana, Malala
    • Andrianomearisoa, Joël
    • Anyaeji, Ifeoma U.
    • Apenouvon, Clay
    • Ategwa, Ajarb Bernard
  • B

    • Baala, Mohamed
    • Belaïd, Intissar
    • Ben Khelil, Yesmine
    • Ben Slimane, Khaled
    • Bénitah, Carolle
    • Bey, Omar
    • Bondo, Vitshois Mwilambwe
    • Boua, Armand
    • Boughriet, Halida
    • Burchell, Jenna
  • C

    • Chamekh, Nidhal
    • Chihota, Virginia
    • Cissé, Soly
    • Clottey, Serge Attukwei
  • D

    • Dailleux, Denis
    • de Medeiros, Emo
    • Demosthene, Florine
    • Donkor, Godfried
    • Dükü, Ernest
  • E

    • Ehikhamenor, Victor
    • Elkamel, Slimen
    • Erruas, Safaa
  • F

    • Farah, Ayan
    • fatmi, mounir
    • Fosso, Samuel
  • G

    • Gaba, Meschac
    • Gakunga, Naomi Wanjiku
    • Gardaf, Hicham
    • Gemuce, Pompílio
    • Gezehagn, Addis
    • Gqunta, Lungiswa
    • Guerresi, Maïmouna
  • H

    • Halter, Dan
    • Hazoumè, Romuald
    • Hwami, Kudzanai-Violet
  • I

    • Idahor, Taiye
  • J

    • Jeyifous, Olalekan
  • K

    • Kaabi-Linke, Nadia
    • Kamudzengerere, Admire
    • Kamwathi, Peterson
    • Karmali, Tahir
    • Karuti, Jackie
    • Katz, Bronwyn
    • Keshta, Ahmed
    • Kganye, Lebohang
    • Klos, Yashua
    • Koko Robert Bi, Jems
    • Konaté, Abdoulaye
    • Kosrof, Wosene Worke
    • Kure, Marcia
    • Kwami, Atta
  • L

    • Lekleti, Mohamed
    • Lemaoana, Lawrence
    • Lo, Ndary
    • Lovelace, Che
    • Lundangi, Franck
    • Ly, Oumar
  • M

    • Maatallah, Atef
    • Mabunda, Gonçalo
    • Makamo, Nelson
    • Mapondera, Wallen
    • Mathieu, Manuel
    • Mathison, Michele
    • Mawimbi, Alex
    • Mazirh, Safaa
    • Mbikayi, Maurice
    • Mejri, Thameur
    • Michéa, Vincent
    • Mika, JP
    • Modisakeng, Mohau
    • Monteiro, Fabrice
    • Msezane, Sethembile
    • Mudaulane, Celestino
    • Mwangi Hutter
  • N

    • Ncaphayi, Mongezi
    • Ngqinambi, Ndikhumbule
    • Nxumalo, Musa N.
    • Nzebo, Boris
  • O

    • Odedina, Abe
    • Ogunbanwo, Lakin
    • Ogunji, Wura-Natasha
    • Olagunju, Niyi
    • Olatunji, Babajide
    • Omuku, Nengi
    • Onadipe, Olumide
    • Onditi, Paul
    • Osodi, George
    • Ouadahi, Driss
    • Ouhaddou, Sara
    • Oukpedjo, Sadikou
    • Oussou, Thierry
    • Ové, Zak
    • Owanto
  • P

    • Peskine, Alexis
    • Pinto, Mauro
    • Pires, Pedro
    • Platter, Cameron
  • R

    • Remli, Btihal
    • Ringgold, Faith
    • Roberts, Deborah
    • Ruga, Athi-Patra
  • S

    • Sadimba, Reinata
    • Samba, Chéri
    • Sanogo, Amadou
    • Sedira, Zineb
    • Shikhani, Ernesto
    • Shomali, Kura
    • Sibande, Mary
    • Sibiya, Bambo
    • Sime, Elias
    • Siwani, Buhlebezwe
    • Snoussi, Aïcha
    • Steyn, Marlene
    • Sunstrum, Pamela Phatsimo
  • T

    • Takadiwa, Moffat
    • Talwst Santiago, Curtis
    • Triki, Gouider
    • Tsegaye, Michael
  • V

    • Van Hove, Eric
    • Vidal, Francisco
    • Viktor, Lina Iris
  • W

    • Wanjiku, Beatrice
    • Watts, Ouattara
  • Y

    • Yéanzi

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