South African Artist Puleng Mongale Explores Family Memory Through Church Photography

Women behind the lens: ‘The women are moving towards the church, but it is not the final destination’

South African artist Puleng Mongale explores how her childhood church still connects her to the women of her family, not through religion but shared history and memory This image, called Holy Gang, combines an image of a church in my mother’s home town, Fateng-tse-Ntsho, in Free State province, South Africa, with self-portraits of me, multiplied to form a group of women. Although at first glance the women are moving towards the church, it is not the final destination. Positioned higher, beyon...

By Puleng Mongale