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Join The Walther Collection
for a special launch celebrating Zanele Muholi's new book, Faces and Phases: 2006-14, published by The Walther Collection and
Steidl.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 from 6:30-8pm
Free and open to the public.
RSVP essential:
invitation@walthercollection.com
526 West
26th Street, Suite 718
New York
City
From The
Walther Collection e-blast:
Zanele Muholi will be
present to speak about her art and activism. Signed copies of Faces and Phases: 2006-14 will be
available for sale.
In Faces and Phases: 2006-14, Zanele Muholi
embarks on a journey of visual activism to ensure black queer and transgender
visibility. Despite South Africa's progressive constitution and twenty years of
democracy, black lesbians and transgender men remain the targets of brutal hate
crimes and so-called corrective rapes. Taken over the past eight years, the
more than 250 portraits in this book present a compelling statement about the
lives and struggles of these individuals. They also comprise an unprecedented
and invaluable archive: marking, mapping, and preserving an often-invisible
community for posterity.
Accompanying
her vivid portraits, Faces and Phases
presents a series of moving testimonies by queer women and transmen who
intimately engage with this long-term project. In poems and memoirs, Muholi's
subjects describe the struggle to live a life of freedom in a social climate
where being oneself can incite violence and abuse. With an essay by Gabeba Baderoon,
as well as an extensive historical timeline tracking the oppression of gays and
lesbians in Africa from the 1700s to today, Faces
and Phases makes an extraordinary statement about resilience and
solidarity.
Zanele
Muholi was born in 1972 in Umlazi township in Durban, South Africa. She lives
in Johannesburg. Muholi studied at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown,
Johannesburg, and received an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University
in Toronto. In 2009, she founded Inkanyiso, an organization that deals with
visual arts, activism, media, and advocacy. The winner of numerous awards,
Muholi's work has been featured in exhibitions including the 55th Venice
Biennale, Documenta 13, the 29th São Paulo Biennal, and at institutions such as
The V&A Museum; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Wits Art Museum,
Johannesburg; The Menil Collection; and The Walther Collection in New York and
Neu-Ulm, Germany. Her award-winning documentary, Difficult Love,
has been screened at festivals around the world. Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence will be presented beginning May 1, 2015 at
the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
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