The recurrent theme of spirituality in the photography of Santu Mofokeng
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Holland Cotter
NEW YORK---Our art galleries often give us what our museums should but don’t, as is the case with this small yet chronologically comprehensive survey of work by the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng. Spirituality is a recurrent theme. The uncomfortably tight and enclosed devotional atmosphere of the “Train Church” series opens up in 2004 with pictures of the Motouleng Cave, a rural pilgrimage site to which the artist took a brother sick with AIDS. [link]
The Walther Collection Project Space
526 West 26th Street, Suite 718, Chelsea
Through May 23
By Holland Cotter
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| Santu Mofokeng’s 1996 photograph “Easter Sunday Church Service,” from his series “Chasing Shadows.” Credit The Walther Collection and Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, Johannesburg |
The Walther Collection Project Space
526 West 26th Street, Suite 718, Chelsea
Through May 23
