{"id":28762,"date":"2025-08-05T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=28762"},"modified":"2025-08-05T14:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:36:41","slug":"zanele-muholi-on-somnyama-ngonyama-hail-the-dark-lioness-at-seattle-art-museum-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/zanele-muholi-on-somnyama-ngonyama-hail-the-dark-lioness-at-seattle-art-museum-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Zanele Muholi on &#8220;Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness&#8221; at Seattle Art Museum (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fppJn5N2-Ks?si=OPRt_aiobB5FUh0p\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (3:44): Queer artist and visual activist Zanele Muholi talks about her series of self portraits: &#8220;Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Taken in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa between 2014 and 2017, each of the 76 self-portraits in the Somnyama Ngonyama (Zulu for Hail the Dark Lioness) series is distinct and poses critical questions about social injustice, human rights, and contested representations of the black body. (&#8230;) In this ongoing series, the portraits often rely on found materials, which become culturally loaded props. (&#8230;) These self-reflective and psychologically charged portraits are unapologetic in their exploration of the constraints of history, ideologies, and contemporary realities. &#8211; Seattle Art Museum<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (3:44): Queer artist and visual activist Zanele Muholi talks about her series of self portraits: &#8220;Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1569],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-28762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-western-united-states","tag-zanele-muholi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}