Billie Zangewa, Sweetest Devotion (2021). Hand-stitched silk collage, 137 x 106 cm. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
Johannesburg-based Billie Zangewa's hand-stitched silk tapestries depicting her friends and family grace the walls of Lehmann Maupin's Seoul and London galleries in a concurrent exhibition across the two spaces.
'I let the viewer into my personal life by giving visual anecdotes of things happening predominantly on the home front. I come from the perspective of the personal as political to show that we are all connected; that we all have the same daily concerns no matter our skin tone or where we are in the world'.
Read Ocula Magazine's conversation with Billie Zangewa here. The artist's exhibition Running Water has opened in London, while Flesh and Blood opens next week in their Seoul gallery.
