Zanele Muholi on Photography as Social Practice

Frieze Issue 227

Jonathan Carver Moore speaks to the artist about building Black queer communities through art.

 

"JCM: Do you consider your work – photography, painting, sculpture – a form of resistance?"

 

"ZM: All the time. All that is Black is substance. My work is quite political. I don’t just produce work for the sake of producing work. It has a lot to do with visibility, which bugs me all the time when I don’t see images of us [Black queer folks] in domestic interiors. When I see billboard ads selling products, I think of how much we blindly consume. So, resistance is the key word."

 

Read the full interview here.

 
June 1, 2022