WORLD-FAMOUS photographer Zanele Muholi is exhibiting in New York in the US.
The talented visual artist and activist will display her masterpiece, Brave Beauty, at Performa, an organisation dedicated to live performance across disciplines, from 1-19 November at locations around New York.
The works will be shown on two new platforms – the South African Pavilion Without Walls and Afroglossia.
They’ll be curated by Performa’s founding director,
RoseLee Goldberg.
This year’s Performa will have a strong focus on works by African artists. Sharing the platform with Zanele will be artists such as Kemang Wa Lehulere, Nicholas Hlobo and William Kentridge.
Zanele, whose art tackles gender issues, spoke recently about the reason Brave Beauty came into being.
“This is about our lives, and if queer history, transhistory, the politics of blackness and self-representation are so key in our lives, we can’t just sit down and not document it,” she said.
