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The Africa Report: South Africa: Revisiting artist Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama self-portraits

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Nobody takes better selfies than Zanele Muholi. About 75 of Muholi's self-portraits hang in the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens as part of a new exhibition, "Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the ...

Vukani II, Paris is from Zanele Muholi’s ongoing series of self-portraits titled Somnyama Ngonyama, which translates to 'Hail the Dark Lioness’. In this series, the artist portrays themself in varying ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The lack of queer visual history compelled me to produce what was missing,” says Zanele Muholi of their creative practice. For ...

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Zanele Muholi pays homage to black women in Spelman exhibit

With an intense stare, androgynous beauty and skin often deepened in postproduction to an inky, painterly black, Johannesburg-based artist Zanele Muholi compels you to look. As the subject of an ...

The Denver Post: Zanele Muholi is “reclaiming my Blackness” with powerful self-portraits at Denver’s Center for Visual Art

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We like to talk about art as something we behold, but South African artist Zanele Muholi turns that concept fully around with the self-portraits currently on ...

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Zanele Muholi is “reclaiming my Blackness” with powerful self-portraits at Denver’s Center for Visual Art

Artist Zanele Muholi favors the term “visual activist.” It is an apt term, given they have made it their life’s work to build an archive of imagery that undoes the historical erasure of Black LGBTQIA ...