“In the face of all the challenges our community encounters daily, I embarked on a journey of
“In the face of all the challenges our community encounters daily, I embarked on a journey of visual activism to ensure that there is black queer visibility. Faces and Phases is about our histories and the struggles that we face. Faces express the person, and Phases signify the transition from one stage of sexuality or gender expression and experience to another. Faces is also about the face-to-face confrontation between myself as the photographer/activist and the many lesbians, women, and transmen I have interacted with from different places.” —Zanele MuholiThe photographs in this portrait project are accompanied by first-person testimonials. Predominantly gathered by Muholi during her outreach work in South Africa, they reflect on life in a country whose constitution protects these subjects’ rights but often fails to defend them from devastating violence. The statements are handwritten on the walls of the gallery, in contrast to the more clinical timeline facing them, in which the artist details hate crimes committed against LGBTI South Africans during the same period.Join us for the final week ofZanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence and contemplate several of the artist’s on going projects that highlight her work as a visual activist. Photo: Liz Ligon -- source link
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