描述
2021年1月8日- 3月20日
CVA自豪地呈现 Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama，向黑暗的母狮致敬, an internationally touring exhibition organized by 亲笔签名, London and curated by Renée Mussai.
In more than 80 self-portraits, celebrated visual activist Zanele Muholi (South Africa, b. 1972) uses their body as a canvas to confront the deeply personal politics of race and 表示 in the visual archive. 他们正在进行的系列 Somnyama Ngonyama，在 伊苏鲁语中翻译为“黑母狮万岁” ， 南非的官方语言之一， 顽皮地运用古典绘画的惯例, 时装摄影, and the familiar tropes of ethnographic imagery to rearticulate contemporary identity politics. Each black and white self-portrait asks critical questions about social (in)justice, 人权, 以及对黑体的争议陈述.
Muholi州, “I’m reclaiming my blackness, which I feel is continuously per为med by the privileged other. My reality is that I do not mimic being Black; it is my skin, 作为黑人的经历在我心中根深蒂固. Just like our ancestors, we live as Black people 365 days a year, and we should speak without fear.”
在整个系列中， the dark complexion of Muholi’s skin (intensified through enhanced contrast applied in post-production), 成为一个深刻的焦点, 对美的多层次追问, 骄傲, 欲望, 自我保健, 幸福, and the many interlinked phobias and isms navigated daily such as homophobia, 不再恐, 排外情绪, 种族歧视, 和性别歧视, 举几个例子.
The exhibition features photographs taken between 2012 – 2019 in cities across Europe, 北美, 亚洲, 和非洲. Muholi的忙碌, radical brand of self-portraiture trans为ms found objects and quotidian materials into dramatic and historically loaded props, 将政治 与个人结合起来, aesthetics with history - often commenting on specific events in South Africa’s past, as well as urgent global concerns pertinent to our present times: scouring pads and latex gloves address themes of domestic servitude while alluding to sexual politics, 暴力文化, 还有往往令人窒息的 性别身份的棱镜. Rubber tires, cable ties, or electrical cords invoke 为ms of social brutality and exploitation; sheets of plastic and polythene draw attention to environmental issues and global waste, while accessories like cowrie shells and beaded fly whisks highlight Western fascinations with clichéd, 非洲文化的异国情调的表现 和人民.
挑衅地盯着镜头, Muholi challenges viewers’ perceptions while firmly asserting their cultural and sexual identity on their own terms.
芮妮Mussai, 展览策展人、亲笔签名高级策展人和策展负责人 & 集合, 解释说, Somnyama Ngonyama 礼物 “a compelling and visionary mosaic of identities, an exquisite empire of selves. 邀请皇冠官网网站进入一个多层, 发自内心的谈话, 系列中的每一张照片, 每个视觉铭文, each confrontational narrative depicts a self in profound dialogue with countless others: implicitly gendered, 不合格的, 文化复杂，历史悠久的黑人群体. It’s a great privilege and honour to be working with the Cooper Gallery again, 经过多年的多次策展合作, to present the work of one of Africa’s most celebrated and courageous contemporary artists – especially poignant considering the current socio-cultural climate globally.”
关于Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi is a visual activist and photographer based in 约翰内斯堡. Muholi’s self-proclaimed mission is “to re-write a Black queer and trans visual history of South Africa 为 the world to know of our resistance and existence at the height of hate crimes in South Africa and beyond.”
They (Muholi’s preferred pronoun) co-founded the Forum 为 Empowerment of Women (FEW) in 2002 (www.inkanyiso.org)，并于2009年创立了Inkanyiso (www.inkanyiso).inkanyiso.Org)，一个酷儿和视觉(激进)媒体论坛. They continue to train and co-facilitate photography workshops 为 young women in South African townships and engage in a variety of community support programs.
Muholi studied Advanced Photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, 约翰内斯堡, 并于2009年在瑞尔森大学(Ryerson University)获得纪录片媒体硕士学位, 多伦多. In 2013 they became an Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts/Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
获得的奖项和荣誉包括人道主义奖 奖 from 为 the Lucie Foundation (2019); Rees Visionary 奖 by Amref Health Africa (2019); a fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society, UK (2018); France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2017); the Mbokodo 奖 in the category of Visual Arts (2017); ICP Infinity 奖 为 Documentary and Photojournalism (2016); Africa’Sout! Courage and Creativity 奖 (2016); Fine Prize 为 an emerging artist at the 2013 Carnegie International; Prince Claus 奖 (2013); Index on Censorship – Freedom of Expression art award (2013); and Casa Africa award 为 best female photographer and Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography (2009).
Muholi won the 2019 ‘Best Photography Book 奖’ by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation 为 Somnyama Ngonyama:你好，黑暗的母狮 (Aperture) and was shortlisted 为 the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 为 the publication 面孔与阶段2006-14 (Steidl/The Walther Collection). 其他刊物包括 Zanele Muholi:非洲女摄影师#1 (Casa Africa and La Fábrica, 2011); 面孔和阶段 (Prestel, 2010); and 这只是一半 (史蒂文森,2006年).
Somnyama Ngonyama 展出于 愿你生活在有趣的时代， 58th Venice Biennale (2019); and in 2017, they produced a city-wide project titled Masihambisane -关于视觉行动主义 为 执行17, 纽约, and their work featured in the inaugural exhibitions at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, 开普敦. Recent solo exhibitions including Seattle Art Museum (2019); Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Georgia (2018); Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2018); LUMA Westbau (2018), 街市摄影工作坊, 约翰内斯堡(2017)市立博物馆, Amsterdam (2017); 亲笔签名, London (2017); and 布鲁克林博物馆，纽约(2015). 他们的作品也在展览会上展出 South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), 第29届
他们的照片在全球主要收藏中展出, 包括蓬皮杜中心(巴黎), 古根海姆博物馆(纽约), 当代摄影博物馆(芝加哥), 泰特现代美术馆(伦敦), 南非国家美术馆(开普敦), 和其他人.
They are represented by Yancey Richardson, 纽约, and Stevenson, 开普敦/约翰内斯堡.
关于签名
亲笔签名 是一家总部设在伦敦的艺术慈善机构, UK, that advocates internationally 为 the work of artists who use photography and film to highlight issues of identity, 表示, 人权和社会正义. http://autograph.org.uk
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