Artist Zanele Muholi Interrogates Race
Artist Zanele Muholi Interrogates Race, Gender, and Politics ...
In a series of self-portraits, Muholi is able to tell stories and histories of race and gender/sexuality from a perspective of the other. By ...
These striking self-portraits reclaim black identity - Sleek Magazine
Through arresting portraiture, Muholi interrogates the politics of race and the representation of black as well as the LGBTQIA+ communities in a ...
The assertiveness of Muholi's photographs appear untrammeled by bourgeois conventions, offering instead the photographic outspokenness and sensuality of Black ...
Zanele Muholi - Artists - Yancey Richardson
Muholi is a South African visual activist and photographer. For over a decade they have documented black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ...
Zanele Muholi | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Over the course of the month, Muholi continued their work on Somnyama Ngonyama, a series of evocative self-portraits that interrogate the roles of gender, race, ...
Queering the nation, querying the history of Black portraiture - NGV
Among South African artist and 'visual activist' Zanele Muholi's self-portraits, the series titled Ntozakhe (Parktown) contains two main ...
Zanele Muholi urge of militancy: «Visual activism is my calling»
Muholi describes themselves as a 'visual activist', not an artist. They strongly claim the purpose of their work, focused on depicting the daily ...
Being Muholi: Portraits as Resistance Presents Powerful Works by ...
“In addition to creating works of astounding and provocative beauty, Muholi combines art and activism as a form of resistance — using the power of imagery to ...
In more than 80 self-portraits, celebrated visual activist Zanele Muholi (South Africa, b. 1972) uses their body as a canvas to confront the deeply personal ...
Zanele Muholi: Art and activism - 1854 Photography
Born in 1972 in the township of Umlazi, Muholi grew up at the height of apartheid — a system of racial segregation in South Africa, formally ...
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness
By increasing the contrast in the dark complexion of their skin, Muholi interrogates complex representations of beauty, pride, and desire. Gazing defiantly at ...
Muholi, whose preferred pronouns are they and them, uses their body as a canvas to confront the politics of race and representation in the ...
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail, The Dark Lioness
In her first solo exhibition in London, South African visual activist Zanele Muholi (b 1972) presents her ongoing self-portrait series Somnyama Ngonyama.
Strong Women: Zanele Muholi - AFRICANAH.ORG
Hail The Dark Lioness sees visual artist Muholi use “their body as a canvas to confront the deeply personal politics of race and representation ...
Muholi: In 2012, I was on an artist residency in Italy, where I stayed in a very, very beautiful place: an old castle. But every morning I'd ...
Zanele Muholi's Elements of Survival - MIT Press Direct
South African artist Zanele Muholi because in the course of my research I ... than engaged in questioning or interrogating—which. I believe is what art is about.
Blackest Against a White Backdrop — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness,” by South African artist Zanele Muholi, reveals layers of meaning at the Cummer Museum in ...
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama Hail The Dark Lioness
In more than 80 self-portraits, celebrated visual activist Zanele Muholi (South African, b. 1972) uses their body as a canvas to confront the deeply personal ...
Artist 101 | Zanele Muholi - Bonhams
Losing their father at a young age, Muholi's mother was left to support a family of eight with minimal means. Identifying as a Black non-binary South African, ...
Zanele Muholi Stakes Their Claim - Ocula
Defiant black and white portraits characterise the ongoing 'Faces and Phases' (2006–ongoing) series, which documents Black South African ...