Tell It to the Mountains in A4’s gallery emerged from a gesture of return. Throughout Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s residency at A4 last year, he reassembled his photographic practice out of sequence and time, building a horizon line onto the foundation’s walls. The exhibition’s title reimagines that of James Baldwin’s 1953 novel – Go Tell It on the Mountain – and the African-American spiritual of the same name. “Go back to where you started,” Baldwin writes, “or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it.”
 
This postcard, Mthimkulu II (detail), was produced for proto~ on the occasion of the exhibition Tell It to the Mountains, which took place between October 2021 and January 2022.
 

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Lindokuhle Sobekwa (b.1995) is a photographer and nominee member of Magnum Photos. He was introduced to photography through Of Soul and Joy’s school programme and later studied at the Market Photo Workshop. In 2017, Sobekwa was selected by the Magnum Foundation for Photography and Social Justice to develop the project I Carry Her Photo With Me. The following year, he received the Magnum Foundation Fund to continue with his long-term project Nyaope. Lindokuhle lives and works in Johannesburg.