Ledelle Moe uses earth and concrete to explore the porousness of bodies, monuments, and belonging – in ancient, industrial and human-scale timelines. Moe mixes the earth from the locations where she might be working into the concrete to build figures, collections of heads and monumental anthropomorphic frames.
Moe studied Sculpture at Technikon Natal in the early 1990s (now Durban University of Technology) and completed her Master’s degree at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1996. After graduating, the artist lived in the United States for almost two decades – making and exhibiting prolifically, lecturing at various tertiary institutions, whilst thinking about land and belonging. Moe has exhibited at institutions such as the Pérez Art Museum (Miami), the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art (Washington D.C.) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York). In 2019, Moe had an ambitious sculptural solo exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
