Moshekwa Langa's art is amongst the most difficult to pigeonhole. "People can't reconcile my idiosyncratic views with their own desire to classify me", he says, but his work, meandering along contradictory trajectories, often tempts the viewer to arrive at false conclusions. In many ways, Langa's work mirrors the artist's life and his activities as they oscillate between Johannesburg and Europe, between nostalgia for his rural South African home and his life as an expatriate in Europe.

During Langa's early successful forays into exhibition-making, foreigners often confronted him with rather conve...

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While the term 'animism' has its roots in classical philosophy, it received its predominant definition by anthropologists in the course of the colonial encounter. 'Animism' describes belief practices that endow objects and non-human entities with life and person-like qualities. It was also frequently identified as minimum definition, and 'primitive' form, of religion. Modern psychology refers to animism as psychological and aesthetic mechanism by which human-like features are 'projected' onto objects.

Originally derived from ancient philosophical and theological debates disputing the conception and nature of 'souls' (animism...

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