Artist field note

Zanele Muholi

The portrait becomes evidence, celebration and self-possession.

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Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi
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Faces and Phases

2006-ongoing

A growing archive gives Black lesbian, trans and gender-nonconforming South Africans sustained visibility.

The five in one idea

Muholi's visual activism builds an archive in which represented communities author their own presence.