2025-02-26 | Zanele Muholi at Frieze Los Angeles 2025
Our fellow Zanele Muholi was represented at Frieze Los Angeles art fair By Southern Guild. Frieze Los Angeles happened from February 20 to 23, during the Black History Month in USA.
South African artist Zanele Muholi takes a different approach to the canons of art history. Pointing to the near invisibility of Black women and non-binary bodies as subjects in Western painting and portraiture prior to the 20th century, Muholi responds by creating an expanding archive of intimate, queer expression through the act of self-portraiture. A new large-scale wallpaper print from Muholi’s seminal series ‘Somnyama Ngonyama’ (Hail the Dark Lioness) is a highlight of Southern Guild’s Frieze Los Angeles debut.
Photo: Zanele Muholi, Kodwa II, Amsterdam – Wallpaper, 2017. Edition 1 of 2, plus 1 AP. Courtesy: Zanele Muholi, Southern Guild, Cape Town/Los Angeles, and Yancey Richardson, New York. © Zanele Muholi