Estopin Qumbu
Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Artwork 2020
Lindokuhle Sobekwa's photograph 'Estopin Qumbu' shows two individuals walking on a dirt road on the left, and two individuals sitting on the grassy roadside on the right.
Artwork: Lindokuhle Sobekwa, _Estopin Qumbu _(2020). Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag. 100 x 126.1 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Lindokuhle Sobekwa Title Estopin Qumbu Date 2020 Materials Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag Dimensions 100 x 126.1 cm Credit Courtesy of the artist

From Ezilalini (The country), 2018–ongoing.

This photograph was included in Tell It to the Mountains, an exhibition by Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Mikhael Subotzky. During his residency at A4 in the year preceding the exhibition, Sobekwa restaged discrete images from his photographic archive, extending his reflections on fragmentation and estrangement to formal strategies of display and storytelling. The resulting ‘umngqameko’ or ‘horizon line’ offered both a compositional device and an opportunity to trace the artist’s thematic preoccupations across time and place, particularly those of belonging and ‘unbelonging’ as transcribed in the landscape. Since developing this strategy at A4, Sobekwa has continued to plot his horizon line across multiple installations, including his solo presentation at Huis Marseille in 2022.

b.1995, Katlehong; works in Johannesburg.

Installation photograph from the ‘Tell it to the Mountains’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. On the left, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs ‘Kwa MamThembu’, ‘Estopin Qumbu’ and ‘Yonelisa Samela in his grandmother’s garden during South Africa’s first lockdown’ are mounted on the wall. On the right, Sobekwa’s monochrome photograph ‘After a protest related to continuous power cuts during Lockdown Level 5 in Thokoza’ is mounted on the wall above the stairway.
Installation photograph from the ‘Tell it to the Mountains’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. On the right, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs ‘Jeannie with her sisters’ and ‘Shack of nyaope users is set on fire by an angry group of men that claim they stole their things. Nyaope users are always the first suspects in the communities’ are mounted on the wall.
Installation photograph from the ‘Tell it to the Mountains’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs line the gallery wall.
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