ELLIPSES is Moshekwa Langa’s first outing with the Stevenson Gallery after a longstanding association with the Goodman. Langa is reticent about his shifting alliance, but it is clear that while his heart may be “broken” he is reassured by the professional move. After all, Stevenson will be showing Langa’s work at Frieze New York in May. And, all the more intriguingly, in July Langa and Joost Bosland will be curating a group show spanning the Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg galleries that is centred on K Sello Duiker’s 2001 novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams.Recently republished, Duiker’s novel captures the turmoil of a mind in siege; it is perhaps the defining new SA fiction that embraces a broken and interrupted worldview — Duiker would later commit suicide.For Duiker it was the Zimbabwean literary genius, Dambudzo Marechera, who would prove a profound influence. The author of Black Sunlight, Marechera well understood the power of bricolage, the ability to combine dissonant el...
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