Sunday Francis Mdlankomo, Vosloorus, Johannesburg
Zanele Muholi
Photography
Zanele Muholi’s Faces and Phases series creates a visual repository of Black lesbian, transgender, and queer sitters in South Africa and its diaspora—one whose prior absence the artist linked to a history of invisibility, violence, and discrimination in the country. While legal rights for LGBTQ+ citizens in South Africa are among the most progressive in the world, these photographs respond to the discrepancies that exist between constitutional protections and lived experiences of gender and sexual violence. Muholi’s portraits emphasize a direct, frontal gaze and sense of self-assertion, interrupting a viewing of the subjects and their diverse identities as marginal.
PORTFOLIO/SERIES
From the series Faces & Phases
MEDIUM
Gelatin silver print
DATES
2011
DIMENSIONS
sheet: 33 7/8 × 23 7/8 in. (86 × 60.6 cm)
image: 29 15/16 × 19 15/16 in. (76 × 50.6 cm)
frame: 34 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (86.7 × 61.3 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Photography
ACCESSION NUMBER
2012.72.1
CREDIT LINE
Robert A. Levinson Fund
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972). Sunday Francis Mdlankomo, Vosloorus, Johannesburg, 2011. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 33 7/8 × 23 7/8 in. (86 × 60.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Robert A. Levinson Fund, 2012.72.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2012.72.1_PS20.jpg)
EDITION
Edition: 1/8 + 2AP
IMAGE
detail, 2012.72.1_PS20.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2023
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