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Meridians

Zanele Muholi

Stevenson, Cape Town, in collaboration with Yancey Richardson, New YorkMuholi V is a bronze sculpture that follows up on the activist Zanele Muholi&#39;s more recent photographic work. In these reclining self-portraits, taken between 2016 and 2019, the topic of rest is explored in relation to risk and relief. With a gaze that shifts between confrontation and avoidance, Muholi articulates notions of vulnerability. This approach changes radically in Muholi V. Through the lens of the present, the work invites new considerations of labor and worth, combining the artist’s activist and aesthetic interests to culminate in a sculpture that references the art historical canon while remaining embedded in a poignant social epoch. Passive and self-possessed, the sculpture is a subversive response to the broader implications of bronze in Western visual culture. Muholi V suggests a three-dimensional antonym to what writer Tim Edensor has described as the &#39;symbolic values expressed by state, military, and religious powers who endeavored to fix ideological meanings in space.&#39;Zanele Muholi (b. 1972, Umlazi, South Africa) is a visual activist, humanitarian, and photographer whose work focuses on race, gender, and sexuality. In the early 2000s, they began documenting and celebrating the lives of Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. They currently live in Cape Town.

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