Zanele Muholi Prints. 86.5 cm x 60.5 cm photo: Today this iconic series features nearly three hundred portraits of women they encountered in south africa.
By highlighting the contrast of my skin tone, i’m reclaiming my blackness, which i feel is continuously performed by the privileged other. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, present the full breadth of muholi’s photographic and activist practice. A word off the top:
In 2006, Muholi Began Work On Faces And Phases, “Faces” Meaning People And “Phases” Meaning The Different Phases Of Constructing One’s Identity.
Courtesy of the artist, yancey richardson gallery, new york, and stevenson gallery, capetown/johannesburg. Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that tell stories of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives in south africa and beyond. Muholi grew up in umlazi—a township outside durban—as one of eight children whose mother was a domestic worker for a white family.
This November, Gropius Bau Opens The First Major Survey In Germany Of South African Visual Activist Zanele Muholi.
Her work is currently being shown at multiple venues like sfmoma, san francisco museum of modern art and will be on exhibit at isabella stewart gardner museum in boston on february 08, 2022. The south african artist zanele muholi uses the pronoun “they,” though for them, it has little to do with the fluidity of gender. 11 x 14 inches (image 8 3/4 x 12 inches) archival giclee print on hahnemuhle photo rag baryta paper.
Kwanele Park, Katlehong, 9 November 2013” (2013), Chromogenic Photograph, 10 7/16 X 14 9/16 In (26.5 X 37 Cm), Framed (© Zanele Muholi.
Muholi first rose to prominence with their series “faces and phases,” for which they shot hundreds of sensitive portraits. The artist's work has featured in documenta, the venice biennale and the são paulo biennale. Sign up to design indaba weekly for the latest design news and inspiration.
Courtesy The Artist Iconic Rebellion In Order To Expose And Neutralize A Dominant Way Of Seeing.
Zanele muholi, vika ii, the decks, cape town, 2019, gelatin silver print. Numerous key galleries and museums such as tate modern have featured. From a photo by zanele muholi.
By Highlighting The Contrast Of My Skin Tone, I’m Reclaiming My Blackness, Which I Feel Is Continuously Performed By The Privileged Other.
Sign up to design indaba news for updates on design indaba events and projects. Zanele muholi is a photographer and visual activist who hails from south africa. 86.5 cm x 60.5 cm photo:
