Nokukhanya Langa
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press release 2019
About what
Nokukhanya Langa (1991) makes paintings, for a large part. She is on her way to become the founder of Soft Political Abstract art.
Her abstract paintings come rather often with somewhere a hidden smile (i.e. an abstracted smiley) or are provided with
texts of people that surround her. Whether by a member of an academy jury or gallerist opinions are put upon Langa.
She paints tube-like borders on canvasses as if she wants to isolate these areas from the rest. Sometimes she ‘repairs’
her paintings with tape as a kind of band aids.
In Galerie van Gelder the main wall is surrounded with a black tube-line with which a factual text statement is shown
leading to perhaps a Soft Political artwork. A sculpture of fabric and painted wood and a text “Slow Fade” raises questions
on borders and being pushed, perhaps. But there is one thing that is for sure when she comments on the Other:
“Wherever something stands, someone will stand beside it.”
KvG, 2019
