5th Nov, 2020 19:00
Aspire X PLP | African Photography Auction 2020
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Lindeka Qampi (South Africa 1969-)
Traditional healers outside a house, Khayelitsha, Cape Town (from the Ubizo series)
archival ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Artwork date: circa 2008–2013
Signature details: signed
Edition: number 1 from an edition of 10
archival ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Artwork date: circa 2008–2013
Signature details: signed
Edition: number 1 from an edition of 10
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image size: 23.5 x 36 cm, sheet size: 29.5 x 42 cm, unframed
Notes:
Lindeka Qampi is a self-taught South African artist and photographer. She began taking photographs in 2006, when she met members of Iliso Labantu (the eye of the people), a community-based photo collective. At the start she worked as a street photographer, photographing weddings, events, and portraits. Soon she moved on to exploring her community in di"erent ways, documenting the lives of ordinary people. Her photographs express the poetry and politics of the ‘ordinary act’ and therein the potential of imagining new possibilities for the future. She has participated in several group exhibitions in South Africa and abroad. In 2011, Qampi developed a series of photographs for New York University master’s student, Shady Patterson's Clothing and Dress in South African Townships in the Post-Apartheid Era which set out to "explore and interrogate the sartorial landscape of impoverished communities to reveal traditional influences in economically oppressed and media saturated societies". Qampi went on to produce her own series of photographs, within the trajectory of ‘township fashion’ and ‘street culture’. In recent years she has collaborated with photographer, Zanele Muholi. One of their projects, Empathetic Eyes, led them to Benin where they presented photography workshops which focused on violence against woman. In 2015, they participated in a Visual Activism Cultural Exchange Project. Muholi and Qampi were acknowledged for their outreach work with a Brave Award in 2016. This work is from Lindeka Qampi’s series Ubizo (the calling). The portraits of traditional healers, photographed in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, where Qampi lives are part of a bigger project on street culture. The calling is associated with traditional healers who when are beckoned by the ancestors to enter their spiritual journey. For Qampi, photography is also a calling and not simply a career path or way to survive. The images were featured in The Other Camera exhibition and book in 2014. The Other Camera was shown at the World Museum, Stockholm; Commune 1, Cape Town; Centre for African Studies Gallery, University of Cape Town; and the Wits Origins Centre, Johannesburg.
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Auction: Aspire X PLP | African Photography Auction 2020, 5th Nov, 2020
A collection of pan-African works, straddling the terrain between historical and contemporary photography, were auctioned to support the digitisation of African photographic legacies by the Photography Legacy Project (PLP). Bidders participated from across Europe, the USA and UK, Asia, Australia and Africa – a testament to Aspire’s increasing global reach and collectors’ enthusiasm for African photography.
The auction included photographic luminaries such as David Goldblatt, Alf Kumalo, G.R. Naidoo, Ranjith Kally and Ian Berry, as well as more contemporary internationally acclaimed photographers like Guy Tillim, Jo Ractliffe, Syowia Kyambi and Mikhael Subotzky. The lead lot, a portfolio of 12 silver gelatin prints from the legendary photographer Ernest Cole’s seminal 1967 book House of Bondage sold for an astounding R569,000 – a new world auction record.
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