Stand 06.09.2024

Zanele Muholi

Lot 388
Isililo XX
inkjet print on cotton fibre-based paper, Baryta coated


Lot 388
Isililo XX
inkjet print on cotton fibre-based paper, Baryta coated

Schätzpreis: R 150.000 - 200.000
€ 7.600 - 10.000
Auktion: -1 Tage

Strauss & Co. Cape Town

Ort: Cape Town
Auktion: 18.09.2024
Auktionsnummer: 358
Auktionsname: Ways of Seeing: South African and International Photography

Lot Details
Another example from the edition can be found the Zeitz MOCAA collection.

"My practice as a visual activist looks at black resistance existence as well as insistence. Most of the work I have done over the years focuses exclusively on black LGBTQIA and gender-nonconforming individuals making sure we exist in the visual archive. Too often we find ourselves in spaces where we cannot declare our entire being. We are here; we have our own voices; we have our own lives. We can't rely on others to represent us adequately, or allow them to deny our existence. Hence I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy spaces - brave enough to create without fear of being vilified, brave enough to take on that visual text, those visual narratives. To teach people about our history, to rethink what history is all about, to reclaim it for ourselves - to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back."1

1. Renée Mussai. (2018) 'Archive of the Self: Renée Mussai in conversation with Zanele Muholi', in Leslie Martin (ed) Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, New York: Aperture, pages 176 and 177.
Lot Details
Another example from the edition can be found the Zeitz MOCAA collection.

"My practice as a visual activist looks at black resistance existence as well as insistence. Most of the work I have done over the years focuses exclusively on black LGBTQIA and gender-nonconforming individuals making sure we exist in the visual archive. Too often we find ourselves in spaces where we cannot declare our entire being. We are here; we have our own voices; we have our own lives. We can't rely on others to represent us adequately, or allow them to deny our existence. Hence I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy spaces - brave enough to create without fear of being vilified, brave enough to take on that visual text, those visual narratives. To teach people about our history, to rethink what history is all about, to reclaim it for ourselves - to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back."1

1. Renée Mussai. (2018) 'Archive of the Self: Renée Mussai in conversation with Zanele Muholi', in Leslie Martin (ed) Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, New York: Aperture, pages 176 and 177.

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Auf einen Blick !
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