alanspazzaliartist:This decade, Zanele Muholi has exemplified the role of the photographer as a visu
alanspazzaliartist:This decade, Zanele Muholi has exemplified the role of the photographer as a visual activist. Their landmark Brooklyn Museum show in 2015 highlighted many images from “Faces and Phases” (2006–14), which chronicled the LGBTQ+ community of their native South Africa. Three years later, they published a powerful book with Aperture, Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (2018), which was accompanied by an international touring exhibition. In that body of work, they created theatrical black-and-white self-portraits to weave together the threads of individual identity, black representation, and cultural history of Africa and its diaspora. Muholi is a master of performance in each frame, slipping in and out of personae and using objects rich with symbolism that comment on both cultural heritage and personal memory.As their work has become increasingly ubiquitous—they had 11 solo shows in 2017 alone—the market has taken notice. Since Muholi made their auction debut in 2013, their work has come to auction 14 more times—10 of them in the past year. Above all, they offer their own image as an indomitable black queer photographer during an explosive period of black creativity and the long-overdue rise of the black figure in art and photography. -- source link
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