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January 8 – March 20, 2021
CVA is proud to present Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness这是一个由伦敦Autograph公司组织、rensame Mussai策划的国际巡回展览.
在 80多张自画像中， 庆祝 视觉活动家 Zanele Muholi(南非，b. 1972)用他们的身体作为画布，在视觉档案中直面 深刻的个人 种族和代表性政治. Their ongoing series Somnyama Ngonyama, which translates as ‘Hail The Dark Lioness’ in isiZulu, one of the official languages of South Africa, playfully employs the conventions of classical painting, fashion photography, 以及皇冠官网网站熟悉的民族志意象来重新阐释当代身份政治. 每一幅黑白自画像都提出了关于社会正义的关键问题, human rights, and contested representations of the Black body.
Muholi states, “我在重新找回我的黑暗，我觉得这一直是由享有特权的他人扮演的. My reality is that I do not mimic being Black; it is my skin, and the experience of being Black is deeply entrenched in me. 就像皇冠官网网站的祖先一样，皇冠官网网站一年365天都是黑人，皇冠官网网站应该畅所欲言.”
Throughout the series, Muholi皮肤的黑肤色(通过后期制作的对比度增强而增强), becomes the focal point of a profound, multilayered interrogation of beauty, pride, desire, self-care, well-being, 每天都有许多相互关联的恐惧症和歧视，比如同性恋恐惧症, transphobia, xenophobia, racism, and sexism, to name but a few.
该展览展出了2012年至2019年在欧洲各城市拍摄的照片, North America, Asia, and Africa. Muholi’s socially-engaged, 激进的自画像品牌将 找到的物品和日常材料转化为具有戏剧性和历史感的道具, merging the political with the personal, 历史美学 - 经常评论 南非过去的具体事件, 除了与皇冠官网网站当前时代相关的紧迫的全球关切之外:洗涤垫和乳胶手套在暗指性政治的同时，解决了家庭奴役的主题, cultural violence, and the often-suffocating prisms of gendered identities. 橡胶轮胎、电缆扎带或电线引发了各种形式的社会暴行和剥削; 塑料和聚乙烯片 引起人们对环境问题和全球废物的关注, 而配饰如贝壳和串珠飞帚则突出了西方人对老套的忧郁的迷恋, exoticized representations of African cultures and people.
Gazing defiantly at the camera, Muholi挑战了观众的认知，同时以自己的方式坚定地维护自己的文化和性别身份.
Renée Mussai, exhibition curator and Autograph’s Senior Curator and head of Curatorial & Collections, explains that Somnyama Ngonyama presents “一个引人注目的、有远见的身份马赛克，一个精致的自我帝国. Inviting us into a multilayered, visceral conversation, each photograph in the series, each visual inscription, 每一个对抗性的叙述都描绘了一个与无数其他人进行深刻对话的自我:隐含的性别, non-conforming, culturally complex and historically grounded Black bodies. 能再次与库珀画廊合作是我莫大的荣幸, after numerous curatorial collaborations over the years, 展示非洲最著名、最勇敢的当代艺术家之一的作品——考虑到当前全球的社会文化气候，尤其令人心酸.”
About Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi是约翰内斯堡的一位视觉活动家和摄影师. Muholi自称的使命是“重写南非黑人酷儿和跨视觉的历史，让世界知道皇冠官网网站在南非及其他地区仇恨犯罪最严重的时候的抵抗和存在。.”
她们(Muholi的首选代词)于2002年共同创立了妇女赋权论坛(FEW).inkanyiso.org), and in 2009 founded Inkanyiso (www.inkanyiso.org), a forum for queer and visual (activist) media. 他们继续为南非乡镇的年轻妇女培训和共同促进摄影讲习班，并参与各种社区支持计划.
Muholi在新镇的市场摄影工作室学习高级摄影, Johannesburg, and in 2009 completed an MFA: Documentary Media at Ryerson University, Toronto. 2013年，他们成为不来梅艺术大学/德国
Awards and accolades received include the Humanitarian Award from for the Lucie Foundation (2019); Rees Visionary Award 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 Award in the category of Visual Arts (2017); ICP Infinity Award for Documentary and Photojournalism (2016); Africa’Sout! Courage and Creativity Award (2016); Fine Prize for an emerging artist at the 2013 Carnegie International; Prince Claus Award (2013); Index on Censorship – Freedom of Expression art award (2013); and Casa Africa award for best female photographer and Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography (2009).
Muholi获得了Kraszna-Krausz基金会颁发的2019年“最佳摄影图书奖” Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail, The Dark Lioness (Aperture)，并因该出版物入围2015年德意志Börse摄影奖 Faces and Phases 2006-14 (Steidl/The Walther Collection). Other publications include Zanele Muholi: African Women Photographers #1 (Casa Africa and La Fábrica, 2011); Faces and Phases (Prestel, 2010); and Only half the picture (Stevenson, 2006).
Somnyama Ngonyama was exhibited in May You Live in Interesting Times, the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); and in 2017, they produced a city-wide project titled Masihambisane – on Visual Activism for Performa 17, New York, 他们的作品在非洲蔡茨当代艺术博物馆的开幕展览中展出, Cape Town. 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), and Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg (2017) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); Autograph, London (2017); and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2015). Their work was also showcased at the South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), and the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010).
Their photographs are represented in major collections globally, including Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Guggenheim (New York), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Tate Modern (London), South African National Gallery (Cape Town), and others.
他们的代理律师是纽约的Yancey Richardson和开普敦/约翰内斯堡的Stevenson.
About Autograph
Autograph is an arts charity based in London, UK, 该组织在国际上倡导艺术家使用摄影和电影来突出身份问题的作品, representation, human rights and social justice. http://autograph.org.uk
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