Zanele Muholi ( born Zanele Muholi , born July 19, 1972 in Umlazi , South Africa ) is a South African photographer and art activist .
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| Date of Birth | July 19, 1972 (aged 47) |
| Place of Birth | Durban |
| Citizenship |  South Africa |
| Occupation | documentary photographer , LGBT activist |
| Awards and prizes | [d] [d] ( 2013 ) [d] ( 2018 ) [d] ( 2017 ) |
Content
- 1 Career start
- 2 Exhibitions
- 2.1 Personal exhibitions
- 2.2 Selected Collective Exhibitions
- 3 Awards
- 4 Criticism
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
Career start
Zanele was born in Umlazi, the southern suburb of Durban , the youngest of five children, Ashwell Tanji Banda Muholi and Bester Muholi. In 2003 she graduated from Market Photo Workshop in Newtown ( Johannesburg ) at the rate of modern photography. In 2004, her first solo exhibition was held at the Johannesburg Art Gallery . In 2009, she received a Master of Fine Arts from Ryerson University in Toronto with a degree in Documentary Media Studies . The theme of Mukholi's master's thesis is the reflection in the art of the identity of black lesbian women after the fall of apartheid in South Africa [1] .
Mukholi worked as a photographer and correspondent in the online journal of the African LGBT community “ Behind the Mask ” [2] . In 2002, with her participation, the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW ) [3] was founded, an organization that aims to provide a safe place for black lesbian women to come and find support. She collected and documented cases of hate crimes against members of the lesbian community in order to draw public attention to the facts of the so-called “corrective rape” [4] , physical violence, and the issue of HIV / AIDS .
Exhibitions
Mukholi began her activity in the field of visual activism in 2004 with the first solo exhibition entitled Visual Sexuality: Only Half the Picture , in the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Basically, her work reflects the position of sexual minorities among black people. She exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos ( Nigeria ), in the exhibition halls “ Kunsthalle Wien ” in Vienna ( Austria ), “Le Case d'Arte” in Milan ( Italy ), in the galleries of Michael Stevenson in Cape Town and Fred Mann in London ( Great Britain ) [5] , participated in the Afrovibes festival of South African theater, dance and visual art in Amsterdam ( Netherlands ) [6] .
The last collective exhibitions in which she participated: Appropriated Landscapes (“Captured Landscapes”) in the exhibition hall of The Walther Collection ( The Walther Collection ), ( Neu-Ulm , Germany , June 2011) [7] , the international biennale in Sao Paulo ( Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo , Fall 2010), ... for those who live in it: Pop Culture, Politics and Strong Voices ("... for those who live this: pop culture, politics and strong voices") in the gallery MU Eindhoven (Netherlands, 2010), Bamako in Toronto ( «Bamako in Toronto") ( Toronto , Canada , 2010), Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black female Identities ( « Hidden everyday and changing role of black women") Museum of Fine Arts Spelman College ( Spelman College , Atlanta , USA , 2009), Life Less Ordinary: Performance and Display in South African Art ( « Life is below average: the activity and its reflection in the arts in South Africa") in the gallery Dzhanogli (Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham , UK, 2009).
Muholi participated in the following exhibitions [8] :
Personal exhibitions
| 2010 | Indawo Yami ("Indavo Yami"), Michael Stevenson, Cape Town |
| 2009 | Faces and Phases (Faces and Stages), Brody / Stevenson, Johannesburg Like a Virgin (Like a Virgin, two authors), Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 2007 | Being ("Being"), Michael Stevenson, Cape Town |
| 2006 | Kunsthalle Wien Exhibition Center, Vienna, Austria Only half the picture (Michael Stevenson, Cape Town |
| 2004 | Visual Sexuality , as part of the Urban Life exhibition, Market Photo Workshop , Johannesburg Art Gallery |
Selected Collective Exhibitions
| 2011 | Appropriated Landscapes (The Captured Landscapes), The Walther Collection , Germany |
| 2010 | ... for those who live in it: Pop culture, politics and strong voices ("... for those who live this: pop culture, politics and strong voices"), MU Eindhoven , The Netherlands |
| 2009 | Biennale of African Photography Les Rencontres de Bamako (Meetings in Bamako), Bamako , Mali |
| 2008 | Summer 2008/9: Projects ("Summer 2008/2009: Projects"), Michael Stevenson, Cape Town |
| 2007 | Summer 2007/8 ("Summer 2007/8"), Michael Stevenson, Cape Town |
| 2006 | South African Art Now , Michael Stephenson, Cape Town |
| 2005 | Erotic Blenders ("Love Mixes "), Toronto, Canada |
| 2004 | Women's Arts Festival Is Everybody Comfortable? (“Is everyone comfortable?”), An exhibition by Market Photo , MuseuMAfricA ( MuseuMAfricA ), Johannesburg |
| 2003 | Pride Women's Arts Festival ("Pride"), Johannesburg |
| 2002 | Women's Arts Festival Pink Loerie Festival ("Pink Lori"), Knysna ( Knysna ) |
Rewards
In 2005, Mukholi received the Tollman Award for the Visual Arts , in 2006 - a scholarship from BHP Billiton and the University of Witwatersrand , in 2009 she won a grant named after Thamsanga Mnyele for an internship in Amsterdam and a grant from Ida and Eli Rubinov to stay ( artist in residence ) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. In 2009, she received the Spanish House of Africa Award ( Casa África ) as the best female photographer and the French Fondation Blachère Award at the African Photo Biennale, Meetings in Bamako, Rencontres de Bamako , Rencontres africaines de la photographie , and and the Fanny Ann Eddy Memorial Award from the journalism organization International Resource Network ( International Resource Network ) in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the study of sexuality in Africa.
Criticism
In August 2009, the Minister of Arts and Culture of South Africa, Lulama Xingwana, left the photo exhibition where the works of Muholi were presented, calling them immoral, offensive and undermining national unity [9] . In response, Mukholi expressed her opinion: “There is nothing worse. I thought that before doing things people think and ask questions. I wanted a dialogue ” [10] .
Notes
- ↑ Mapping Our Histories: A Visual History of Black Lesbians in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Zanele Muholi Archived July 18, 2011. (eng.)
- ↑ Behind the Mask | The Voice of Africa's LGBTI Community Archived July 30, 2010. (eng.)
- ↑ Forum for the Empowerment of Women
- ↑ SOUTH AFRICA Law Failing Lesbians on “Corrective Rape” Archived June 10, 2011 to Wayback Machine .
- ↑ Fred [London] Ltd - Contemporary Art Gallery Artists, African Contemporary Art, Fred Mann, McCaslin, Matthew, Huffman, David, Davis, Kate, Ruga, Athi-Patra, Bertiers, Joseph, Donkor ... Archived March 12, 2013 at Wayback Machine
- ↑ Afrovibes - Programma Archived on July 28, 2012. (eng.)
- ↑ Appropriated Landscapes / e-flux Archived May 18, 2011 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ STEVENSON | Zanele Muholi
- ↑ South African minister describes lesbian photos as immoral | World news | The Guardian
- ↑ Xingwana: Homophobic claims 'baseless, insulting' - Arts - Mail & Guardian Online
Literature
- Zanele Muholi: Only Half The Picture (link not available) . - STE Publishers, 2011. 96 p. ISBN 0620361468 , ISBN 978-0620361460
- Faces and phases / ed. Sophie Perryer. - Prestel USA, 2010.96 p. ISBN 3791344951 , ISBN 9783791344959