Kemang Wa Lehulere: In All My Wildest Dreams (2016)

This portrait of the South African artist Kemang Wa Lehulere looks at his work and his process, on the occasion of his exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Wa Lehulere's work is internationally recognized for his conflation of the personal and the collective, and in how he reenacts what he calls deleted scenes from South African history. He often reinterprets narratives of exile or displacement through media that are ephemeral, found, and notational, such as chalk drawings on blackboard, small-scale performance, salvaged wood from old school desks, sketchbook pages, letters written to friends, strangers, and public institutions, with which he might suggest that the gallery is a fantastical, temporary classroom.