Zanele Muholi
Miss D'Vine 2, 2007
Lambda digital C-print
76.5 x 76.5 cms
30 1/16 x 30 1/16 ins
6326
Provenance
Fred LondonAcquired in 2010
2007 Paper size: 86.5 x 86.5 cms Edition of 5 + 2 AP From a group of portraits Muholi took of the drag queen Miss D’vine. Here, Miss D’vine is...
2007
Paper size: 86.5 x 86.5 cms
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
From a group of portraits Muholi took of the drag queen Miss D’vine. Here, Miss D’vine is wearing traditional South African garb – a choice of costume intended to subvert traditional notions of gender. ‘I give young black queens and drag artists a visual voice in the cultural landscape of post-apartheid South Africa,’ Muholi explains. ‘These photographs examine how gender-queer identities and bodies are shaped by – but also resist, through their very existence – dominant notions of what it means to be black and feminine.’
Paper size: 86.5 x 86.5 cms
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
From a group of portraits Muholi took of the drag queen Miss D’vine. Here, Miss D’vine is wearing traditional South African garb – a choice of costume intended to subvert traditional notions of gender. ‘I give young black queens and drag artists a visual voice in the cultural landscape of post-apartheid South Africa,’ Muholi explains. ‘These photographs examine how gender-queer identities and bodies are shaped by – but also resist, through their very existence – dominant notions of what it means to be black and feminine.’