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Strong Women: Zanele Muholi

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By playing photographer and subject, Muholi keeps the authenticity of both roles and redefines the transaction between those roles. It is true to say that she is both (and neither) the dominant and submissive party. This is the traditional power dynamic examined through the styles she uses.

Christabel Johanson on Zanele Muholi
Somnyama Ngonyama II, Oslo, 2015 © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York.
First published: June 6, 2021

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Black Women’s Bodies in Art

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Through their art work, these women confront the injustices of misrepresentation done to black women throughout history and disrupt the built-in prejudices they have faced. Importantly they also prove that the importance of black female’s bodies run more than just skin deep.

Christabel Johanson on Black Women’s Bodies in Art.
First published: September 3, 2019

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Pencil Me Down: groupshow at Angels and Muse, Ikoyi, Lagos.

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In Pencil Me Down, drawing again shows itself as capable of holding the textures of life and the complexity and variety of human emotions as any other medium.

Joseph Omoh Ndukwu on group show at Angels and Muse, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Laju Sholola, Portrait 25, 2023

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Vince at Gallery 23 Amsterdam

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Vince is not an artist of preconceived concepts and sketchbooks full of experiments. He begins a work when he feels the need for it and lets it form associatively or intuitively.

Rob Perrée on Vince’s new work.

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Heidi Sincuba

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Heidi Sincuba has not abandoned her original commitment; she has added a dimension to it. This is evident in the works on paper she is showing at Gallery 23 in Amsterdam.

Rob Perrée on new work of Heidi Sincuba
Touki Bouki 1, 2023

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