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Somnyama II, Oslo

2015
(South African, b. 1972)
South African
gelatin silver print
Image: 49.5 x 43.2 cm (19 1/2 x 17 in.); Framed: 52.2 x 45.2 x 4.4 cm (20 9/16 x 17 13/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2016.40
© Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson Gallery, and Stevenson Cape Town / Johannesburg
Edition: Edition of 8
Location: not on view
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This self-portrait is from a series called Hail the Dark Lioness.

Description

Zanele Muholi’s bold, self-possessed stare and high piles of tresses suggest the power of 17th-century French kings and of kings of the jungle, but white and gold are replaced by dark tones. “By exaggerating the darkness of my skin tone,” says Muholi, “I'm reclaiming my blackness, which I feel is continuously performed by the privileged other.”
A photograph of a woman with dark skin, powerful stare, and voluminous hair piled high around her face.

Somnyama II, Oslo

2015

Zanele Muholi

(South African, b. 1972)
South African

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