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Winner of the 2023 FNB Art Prize Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s solo exhibition 'Umkhondo: Going Deeper' will be at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, in collaboration with Goodman Gallery, from 24 August to 23 March. It unites two interconnected bodies of work — 'I carry Her photo with Me' and 'Ezilalini (The Country)' — seen together for the first time.

Sobekwa, who was born in 1995 in Katlehong on the East Rand, is from a generation of South African photographers born after the first democratic elections of 1994. In 'Ezilalini (The Country)' bucolic rolling hills and entirely flat landscapes belie the beauty and the scars of erosion that quietly mark the landscape.

Reflecting on the horizon as a place where one never fully arrives, Sobekwa documents his journey from Katlehong to his ancestral home in the country, where his maternal grandmother still lives, in Tsomo, in the Eastern Cape.