Zanele Muholi fights against oblivion with exhibition on the black queer community
South African artist Zanele Muholi is presenting an exhibition at Amsterdam's Galerie Ron Mandos that focuses on her twenty-year career documenting and advocating for the Black LGBTQ community. The show combines self-portraits with her ongoing Faces and Phases project, aiming to preserve the history and pride of queer individuals for future generations.
South African visual artist Zanele Muholi has returned to the Netherlands for an exhibition at Galerie Ron Mandos that highlights her two decades of activism for the global Black LGBTQ community. Through portraiture and painting, Muholi seeks to empower marginalized groups and ensure their visibility for future generations, using art as a tool to prevent these communities from being forgotten. The exhibition, titled Hlanganani, serves as a rallying call for Black pride and queer unity.
The showcase begins with a series of self-portraits created during the artist's travels, incorporating everyday household objects like bedding and lamps into her creative work. It also features a renewed installment of her long-running project Faces and Phases, which began in 2006 to document the Black queer community. As part of this latest exhibition, Muholi is engaging with the local scene in Amsterdam to photograph a new generation of individuals, with the show running from September 12 through November 1.
Based on reporting by parool. Translated and condensed by LocalHeadlines.
