Zanele muholi biography of alberta
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Zanele Muholi
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO.
Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in Johannesburg.
Muholi’s work has been recognized for its radical emphasis on marginalized communities in South Africa, exploring queerness, blackness, femininity, and the intersections in between.
Zanele muholi biography of alberta
Her photographs are an attempt to create an archive and dialogue surrounding both blatant and epistemic violence against black queer communities in South Africa. “This is a time for a visual state of emergence,” she says.
“The preservation and mapping of our herstories is the only way for us black lesbians to be visible.”
Across her work, she chronicles that which is systematically erased from both South African and international narratives: lesbian weddings, trans men dressing in tuxedos, survivors of ‘corrective rape,’ lovers in bed together.
Muholi’s pictorial archive offers visibility to the invisible, history to the erased, and celebration t