Smoking Gun: Ofentse Seshabela Solo Show

Eclectica Contemporary is excited to present Ofentse Seshabela’s second solo exhibition titled Smoking Gun, following his successful solo debut Democrazy in 2020. Seshabela implements the technique of smoke drawing in order to deliberately distort and blur the politically loaded content he has become known for. Through Seshabela’s lens the viewer is invited to engage in a larger conversation of blackness and resistance. 

If you are not going to fire the gun, says Chekhov, ‘it shouldn’t be hanging there’. In Seshabela’s case, the ‘gun’ is a black struggle which, through art, he has weaponised. The techniques he uses are multiple, comprising graffiti and pop art, the graphic impact of which he deliberately blurs with the aid of a candle. — Ashraf Jamal