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Zanele MUHOLI, <Avanda & Nhlanhla Moremi's wedding>, C-prin t, Set of 10 prin ts, 2013 ⓒ Zanele Muholi, Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg.
Zanele MUHOLI, <Duduzile Zozo’s Funeral>, C-pri nt, Set of 11 prin ts, 2013 ⓒ Zanele Muholi, Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg.
Zanele MUHOLI, <Of Love & Loss, Mixed media>, 2014 ⓒ Zanele Muholi, Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg.
Zanele MUHOLI Avanda & Nhlanhla Moremi's wedding
While many countries in Africa enacted homophobic legislations and expressed bigotry toward Western homosexuals, Republic of South Africa set itself apart from them by enacting a legislation that recognizes same-sex marriages. Still, LGBT African Americans (sexual minority including Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender, Intersexual) are suffering from hate crimes. Black lesbians who are particularly vulnerable among them oftentimes become the victim of cold-blooded murder or suffer ‘rape under the pretext of treatment’ by people around them or their so-called ‘friends’. In 2013, Muholi recorded events which seem to connect happiness and sorrow, a wedding ceremony and a funeral of people in black LGBT community in Republic of South Africa. The photograph installation of ZaneleMuholi shows how a sad event and a happy event can share similarities. This work emphasizes the need
of space for an individual’s expression of identity.
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