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| Zanele Muholi self 2015 |
I first saw Zanele Muholi and her work in Cape Town about a dozen years ago - with a sequence of sepia close-ups of dark skin, arresting and beautiful images set beside terrible accounts of attacks on LGBTQ individuals. Since then, her work has been seen internationally, as I glimpsed in Johannesburg last year. It's an ongoing, ever-developing project entitled Somnyama Ngonyama, the latest phase of which is on view at Autograph ABP, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA Tues-Sats 13 July till end October
http://autograph-abp.co.uk/exhibitions/zanele-muholi
"I’m reclaiming my blackness, which I feel is continuously performed by the privileged other. My reality is that I do not mimic being black; it is my skin, and the experience of being black is deeply entrenched in me. Just like our ancestors, we live as black people 365 days a year, and we should speak without fear." - Zanele Muholi 
Interview with Muholi and more pictures here
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