Zanele Muholi, self-titled autobiographical exhibition, presented by Southern Guild, is this cultural activist’s largest presentation of new sculpture to date and introduces new photography in the Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness) series.
The exhibition also features selected works from Muholi’s prolific canon of renowned imagery, retrospectively tracing the intimate evolution of the artist’s personal landscape.
Zanele Muholi, Qhawe Umbumbulu , KwaZulu Natal
With self-portraiture as its predominant mode, this wide-ranging exhibition presents a reckoning with themes including sexual freedom, inherited taboos around female genitalia and biological processes, gender-based violence and the resultant trauma, sexual rights and biomedical education. Muholi will include an area dedicated to forthcoming activations, film screenings, lectures and cross-cultural dialogue, furthering Muholi’s mission to educate through art-making.
Muholi calls for new rites of self-expression, sexuality, mothering and healing that usher in kinder modes of survival in our contemporary world.
“The uterus is the rite of passage that is common to all of us regardless of race, class, gender. It is a common space, it is like water – water is water, blood is blood, the womb is the womb, birth is birth. You are born from someone, you come from that passage.” – Zanele Muholi
“Zanele Muholi portrays the agony and ecstasy of existing in a Black, queer female body, and the powerful nature of Muholi’s traverse through the world as both an artist and visual activist.” – Lindsey Raymond
WHAT: Zanele Muholi’s self-titled, autobiographical exhibition
WHERE: Southern Guild, Silo 5, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: opens 15 June to 17 August 2023 | Gallery Hours Mon-Fri: 9am – 5:30pm Sat: 10am – 2pm
INFO: T +27 21 461 2856 | E southernguild@theguildgroup.co.za | Visit | Instagram: southernguildgallery | Facebook: SouthernGuild
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