In an effort to solidify photographic imagery in material form, South African visual artist Mohau Modisakeng cast his own likeness in resin and bronze. It forms part of a larger travelling exhibition known as Lefa La Ntate.
It was the unsettling attention to detail in the artwork that caught the eye of musician Nakhane Toure: the facial texture, expression and life-like form of the bronze figure that moved Toure. As he puts it, “I like my beauty to be a little bit more… rough.”
Owing to the original intent of the sculpture (to be a singular physical representation of a greater idea), the artist does not consider the sculpture to be an object in and of itself. According to Modisakeng, it is one integral part of Lefa La Ntate.