WECREATIVES Presents: Zanele Muholi at the Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg.
If you, like myself, are an avid art lover who enjoys visiting museums, galleries, fairs and any event where the works of artists you appreciate can be found, you’ll certainly love this short but intimate video from WECREATIVES on South African artist and activist Zanele Muholi.
In this 2-minute film, Muholi, who’s work “Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama” is currently on show at the Stevenson Gallery in Johannesburg until 19 December 2015, and again on 4 January - 29 January 2016, shares the importance of photography in her life as well as the instrumental role its played in her personal development. We hear how it is now an instrument of healing and self valuation for her, as she deals with the different ideas behind her images.
As an added bonus, the clip takes us through a brief but close up viewing of her works as they hang at the Stevenson Gallery in Braamfonein.
This short film is accompanied by a very sombre, calm and emotive piano piece by Ethiopian musician and nun Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou titled Homesick.
See more from the exhibition on the WECREATIVES Instagram.
View more art on Dynamic Africa.
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Students at Protestant secondary school, Mbandaka, (part 2) Congo by Eliot Elisofon, 1972.
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The #DontJudgeChallenge is the dumbest shit I’ve seen in a while. These people are trying to end body shaming by putting on fake pimples, unibrows, uneven teeth, etc. then taking it off to show how gorgeous they really are?????????????
You can’t end body shaming with more body shaming. People with pimples can’t wipe them off and you’re only promoting thinking about them as lesser than your natural beauty.
That’s like trying to end racism with Blackface. “You guys thought I was an ugly tar baby? Psych! I’m a gorgeous olive skinned white woman! #TheHumanRaceChallenge”
I need a break from social media tbh.
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Wiilo: Queer Somali Canadian American
“Wiilo Geedi. Wiilo in Somali means girls who dresses like boy. It’s a nickname that I was given by my elders when I was younger. It’s something that has always comforted me when I was going through my process of discovering my queerness and helped me to overcome the shame and the feeling of being pushed away from my culture.
Like everything about myself my country of origin is complicated. I was born in Washington, DC while my parents were on vacation. We returned to Somalia but my family emigrated from Somalia because of civil war and I grew up in suburbs outside Toronto, Canada.
They/Them
Queer ”
- Wiilo (Queer Somali Canadian American, They/Them, Tumblr/IG/Twitter: @pocstudios)
About Limit(less):
Limit(less) is a photography project by Mikael Owunna (@owning-my-truth) documenting the visual aesthetics and expression of LGBTQ African Immigrants (1st and 2nd generation) in diaspora. As LGBTQ Africans, we are constantly told that being LGBTQ is somehow “un-African,” and this rhetoric is a regular part of homophobic and transphobic discourse in African communities. This line of thinking, however, is patently false and exists an artifact of colonization of the African continent. Identities which would now be categorized as “LGBTQ” have always existed, and being LGBTQ does not make us “less” African.Limit(less) explores how LGBTQ African immigrants navigate their identities and find ways to overcome the supposed “tension” between their LGBTQ and African identities through their visual aesthetics and expression. The project seeks to visually deconstruct the colonial binary that has been set up between LGBTQ and African identities, which erases the lives and experiences of LGBTQ Africans. #LimitlessAfricans
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SNAP CRACKLE POP
in light of all the islamophobic content being produced post-charlie hebdo, i wanted to shift some focus to the idea that not all of us 2 billion muslims in this world are the monstrous, violent villians that the media loves to portray us as. some of us r chill, cute bbs like these two sweet hearts that i shot. this is part of an on going series that im working on—creating positive images of muslims by muslims to really illuminate the humanity in our people. shout out to all the brothers and sisters living in this day and age where its perfectly legal to publish hate speech on san francisco public transit.
you can check out the rest of the these photos here:
http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/01/snap-crackle-pop/
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