Inga Somdyala: The Mountains Of My Youth

Taking its title from Moshekwa Langa's installation, ›The Mountains of My Youth—A Novel‹ (1997), Inga Somdyala’s exhibition turns to the mountain as a place where experience exceeds the moment of its occurrence, continuing to shape the ways a life is lived and a practice is formed. The works presented emerge from this enduring condition, drawing on a visual language developed over many years, where repetition, accumulation and material attention produce relationships of scale, proximity and movement. 

Photography, sound and installation extend this language across the exhibition, creating a sequence of encounters in which the body moves through shifting registers of memory, place and time. ›The Mountains of My Youth‹ does not look back so much as it looks through. The mountain appears neither as image nor symbol, but as a structure of experience that finds new expression through the slow work of making.