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Blue in green (after Miles Davis)

Blue in green (after Miles Davis)

Kemang Wa Lehulere

South Africa
2023 - 2025

Oil on canvas

At the Rupert Museum, the body of paintings by Kemang Wa Lehulere, titled Amarhoqololo: six feet away from illegibility, is in conversation with pieces from the permanent collections of the Rupert Museum, by the likes of Anton van Wouw (1862-1945), Jan Buys (1909-1985), Cecil Higgs (1898-1986) and WH Coetzer (1900-1983).


Amarhoqololo is an isiXhosa word denoting illegibility and or the unrecognisable. The works explore the inner universe, psychological or unconscious realm with the intent to delve into the child-like form of excavation to express the invisible and unseen. While this position intentionally expresses illegibility, it is also aware of the claims as contradictory while searching for meaning and sense-making in what cannot be deliberately ciphered.

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