WHEN:
Sep 11, 2025 - Jan 18, 2026
For more information visit the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art website.
WHERE:
Leslie Lohman Museum of Art
26 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...The multidisciplinary practice of Athi-Patra Ruga (b. Umtata, Eastern Cape, South Africa; lives and works in Cape Town and Hogsback, Eastern Cape) centers on myths—their creation, their unraveling, and their relationship to power and liberation. Through performance, film, painting, textile, and glass, Ruga creates allegorical figures using craftsmanship as a strategy of re-embodiment. His figures move through utopic and dystopic realms, aspects of which in turn draw from Xhosa history and legend as well as post-apartheid South Africa. Since 2012, many of Ruga’s projects have centered on the imagined realm of Azania, an ancient Greek reference to a southeastern region of Africa. Azania was taken up by activists in the struggle to end apartheid, invoking both a precolonial Black homeland and a decolonized, liberated South Africa..."
