Zanele Muholi

Zodwa I, Amsterdam, 2015, Inkjet on cotton paper framed no glass, Image and paper size 20 x 13.35 cm?
Somnyama I, Paris, 2014, Silver gelatin framed with glass and window mount, Image size 80 x 53.3 cm, paper size 90 x 63.3 cm?
Thembeka I, New York Upstate, 2015, Silver Gelatin framed with glass, Image and paper size 50 x 38.7 cm
Zibuyile I, Syracuse, 2015, Inkjet on cotton paper framed no glass, Image and paper size 60 x 43.5 cm?
MaID, Brooklyn, New York, 2015, Silver gelatin print framed with glass, Image size 30 x 21.7 cm, print size 40 x 31.7 cm?
Bester V, Mayotte, 2015, Silver gelatin unframed, Image and paper size 50 x 41 cm
Zodwa II, Amsterdam, 2015, Inkjet on cotton paper framed no glass, Image and paper size 40 x 32.1 cm?
Somnyama Ngonyama II, Oslo, 2015, Inkjet on cotton paper framed no glass, Image and paper size 50 x 43.6 cm?
Babhekile II, Oslo, 2015, Inkjet on cotton paper framed no glass, Image size 50 x 37.7 cm, paper size 60 x 47.7 cm?
? Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/ Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York
? Location: Seosomun Main Building

Bester I, Mayotte, 2015, Inkjet on cotton paper framed without glass, Image size 70 x 50.5 cm, paper size 80 x 60.5 cm?
Somnyama III, Paris, 2014, Inkjet on cotton paper framed no glass, Image and paper size 80 x 59.5 cm
Hlengiwe, Paris, 2014, Inkjet on cotton paper framed no glass, Image and paper size 80 x 53.3 cm?
Bester IV, Mayotte, 2015, Inkjet on cotton paper framed no glass, Image and paper size 80 x 57.8 cm?
MaID in Harlem, African Market, 116 St, 2015, Archival Pigment ink on Baryta Fibre paper framed no glass, Image size 50 x 40 cm, paper size 60 x 50 cm?
? Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/ Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York
? Location: Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum

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Zanele Muholi, who has been undergoing a life-long project of documenting members of the black LGBTI community of South Africa, turned the camera on herself and produced selfportraits taken while travelling in South Africa, America and Europe. With such artistic practices she confronts the politics of race while commenting on specific events in South Africa’s political history, such as the Marikana massacre. In her photographs of stark black and white contrast, Muholi dresses in different outfits as she takes on various personas. Zanele Muholi writes: “Experimenting with different characters and archetypes, I have portrayed myself in highly stylized fashion using the performative and expressive language of theater. The black face and its details become the focal point, forcing the viewer to question their desire to gaze at images of my black figure. By exaggerating the darkness of my skin tone, I’m reclaiming my blackness, which I feel is continuously performed by the privileged other.” (The titles include a word or phrase in Zulu along with the place where the photograph was taken.)

Zanele Muholi

b. 1972. Lives and works in Johannesburg.
Muholi is a visual activist. She cofounded the Forum for Empowerment of Women (FEW) in 2002, and in 2009 founded Inkanyiso (www.inkanyiso. org), a forum for queer and visual (activist) media. She continues to train and co-facilitates photography workshops for young women in the townships. Muholi studied Advanced Photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg, and in 2009 completed an MFA: Documentary Media at Ryerson University, Toronto. She is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen. Her Faces and Phases series has shown at dOCUMENTA (13); Venice Biennale, the South African Pavilion, 2013; and S?o Paulo Biennale, 2010. Solo exhibitions have taken place at institutions including Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts; Gallatin Galleries, New York; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Akershus Kunstsenter, Norway; Einsteinhaus, Ulm; Schwules Museum, Berlin; Williams College 145 Museum of Art, Massachusetts; and Casa Africa, Las Palmas. Recent group shows include African Art Against the State, Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, 2016; After Eden / Apr?s Eden: The Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, 2015; Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; Guggenheim Bilbao, 2015; The Order of Things: Photography from the Walther Collection, The Walther Collection, Ulm, 2014; After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, 2014; and Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2014. She participated in Berlin Biennale, 2016.