How 16 On Lerotholi Seeks To Foster Empathy And Solidarity Within The Langa Community
How 16 On Lerotholi Seeks To Foster Empathy And Solidarity Within The Langa Community. 16 on Lerotholi is a space that uses art as an essential tool to foster understanding, empathy and solidarity within the Langa community, in South Africa at large, within the African continent and beyond. Additionally, the space showcases the brilliant powerhouses of creativity that the continent gives rise to. The vision of the gallery is to redefine the African Dream by empowering African artists with a platform that is invested in their artistic development and commercialisation.
16 on Lerotholi is a space that uses art as an essential tool to foster understanding, empathy and solidarity within the Langa community, in South Africa at large, within the African continent and beyond. Additionally, the space showcases the brilliant powerhouses of creativity that the continent breathes. Each year, 16 on Lerotholi will stage a number of exhibitions, and will run an artist in residence programme.
Some of the artists the company features are Setlamorago Mashilo, a 34 year old Installation artist who is a trained visual artist that lives and works in Pretoria. He graduated High School in 2005 and his development as an artist was profoundly influenced by his introduction to postmodern theory and his Sepedi upbringing. Mashilo works in various media including drawing, sculpture and printmaking.
“I employ the use of ‘dika le diema’ (Sepedi Proverbs and Idioms) which incorporate objects, images, stories and songs inherited from my collective Sepedi upbringing. As a result, I unpack my own spiritual and psychological connections with these established systems of thought or ideologies and how they still condition our contemporary lives – the very same systems created by previous generations to secure our being and give them what we/they seek from life.” Mashigo said in a statement.
