ZANELE MUHOLI (SOUTH AFRICA 1972-) THUTHUKA I, SAN FRANCISCO, 2022 ,2022
Provenienza : Provenance: Muholi Art Institute, Cape Town.
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Note : Notes: Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the Artist. These two striking and captivating portraits form part of Zanele Muholi’s most recent additions to their ongoing Somnyama Ngonyama series in which the artist, as a visual activist, uses their own body to address critical politics of race, representation, gendered identities and human rights in relation to the Black body – through photography. In these powerful, highly stylised black-and-white self-portraits, Muholi (playfully) employs the conventions of classical painting, fashion photography and the familiar tropes of ethnographic imagery to rearticulate discourses of contemporary identity politics. Here, found and ‘everyday’ objects are dramatically transformed into social symbolic props, merging the political with the personal and aesthetics with history. Muholi does not only comment on specific events or issues in South Africa’s present and past, but also current urgent global concerns. In November 2022, the International Centre For Photography’s 11th Spotlights honoured Zanele Muholi in New York. Founded in 2012, the ICP Spotlights has spent ten years celebrating the immense talent of women image-makers influencing the world of photography and visual culture and how they create space for gender diversity in photography. NOTES A large-scale mid-career retrospective of the artist’s extensive career was presented by the Tate Modern, London in 2020/21. Thereafter the exhibition travelled to the Gropius Bau in Berlin and Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Muholi was recently featured in The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written at Victoria Miro in London. Curated by Katy Hessel, the exhibition coincides with her book The Story of Art without Men, aiming to 'overthrow the canon' and 'place women firmly at the centre of the story’. Collections: The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably, the Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, Baltimore; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London and Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.
Condition_report : The condition is excellent.
