Zanele Muholi Book Launch and Signing
Excerpt from Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends – November 2014
ZANELE MUHOLI “FACES AND PHASES: 2006-14”
BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING
November 19, 6:30-8pm
The Walther Collection Project Space
526 West 26th Street, Suite 718, New York
RSVP essential: invitation@walthercollection.com
In Faces and Phases: 2006-14, Zanele Muholi embarks on a journey of visual activism to ensure black queer and transgender visibility. Despite South Africa’s progressive constitution and twenty years of democracy, black lesbians and transgender men remain the targets of brutal hate crimes and so-called corrective rapes. Taken over the past eight years, the more than 250 portraits in this book present a compelling statement about the lives and struggles of these individuals. They also comprise an unprecedented and invaluable archive: marking, mapping, and preserving an often-invisible community for posterity.