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Zanele Muholi Quotes

born 1972 South Africa

Zanele Muholi(born 19 July 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000's, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities.

South Africa
Activists
Photographers

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They should hold workshops on the constitution in all the townships - people are not aware of our rights and needs.

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

It is being both black and gay which is problematic.

I cannot give up myself and my soul simply because I need some exposure.

I am re-writing a black, queer and trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our existence, resistance and persistence.

If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.

In my world, every human is beautiful.

I want people to understand our existence and presence, to say, 'we exist'. So that existence comes with a visibility that is positive.

I believe I cannot just use photography for fine art, it should go deeper. We should use whatever method is there to speak on anything that is unjust that happens in our spaces.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zanele Muholi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.