BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:175@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150917T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150917T200000 DTSTAMP:20150915T195906Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-zanele-muholi-v ukanirise/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Preview Night: Zanele Muholi: V UKANI/RISE DESCRIPTION:Preview Night: Thursday 17 September 2015\, 18.00 - 20.00\nSpee ches at 18:15\nPerformance by Odidiva at 18:30\n\nExhibition Period: Frida y 18 September - Sunday 29 November 2015\n\nArtist Talk: Tuesday 15 Septem ber\, 18.00 - 20.00\nZanele Muholi: Visual Activism / Bethini III\n\nZanel e Muholi is a South African photographer and visual activist whose work ex plores gender\, race and sexuality\, particularly in relation to South Afr ican society and political landscape. The exhibition at Open Eye Gallery i s the first major presentation of Muholi’s work in the UK.\n\nIn 2009 Mu holi wrote a thesis mapping the visual history of black lesbian identity a nd politics in post Apartheid South Africa as part of her MFA in Documenta ry Media from Ryerson University\, Toronto.\n\nSince 2004 Muholi has exhib ited extensively worldwide\, most recently at the Brooklyn Museum (NYC). S he has also taken part in important exhibition platforms such as the 55th Venice Biennale and Documenta 13 in Kassel. She is the recipient of numero us prizes and one of 2015 shortlisted photographers for the Deutsche Börs e Prize for her seminal series\, Faces and Phases.\n\nFour of Muholi’s p rojects will be presented across Open Eye Gallery’s three exhibition spa ces\, accompanied by audio/video interviews and statements from those feat ured in Muholi’s work.\n\nFaces and Phases (2006–15) is an ongoing ser ies of work\, a living and growing collection of portraits. Zanele Muholi embarks on a journey of “visual activism” to ensure black queer and tr ansgender visibility. Despite South Africa’s progressive Constitution an d twenty years of democracy\, black lesbians and transgender men remain th e targets of brutal hate crimes and so-called corrective rapes. More than 200 portraits\, accompanied by moving testimonies\, present a compelling s tatement about the lives and struggles of these individuals. They also com prise an unprecedented and invaluable archive: marking\, mapping and prese rving an often invisible community for posterity.\n\nZaVa (2013) focuses o n Muholi’s relationship with her white partner\, and brings the notion o f making the private public to the fore. The images show the two of them s haring intimate moments in hotel rooms in various states of undress. The i mages are soft and gentle\, and the viewer is able to get a sense of their relationship\, their love for each other\, in a deeply connected and mean ingful way – not in a detached\, voyeuristic sense.\n\nBrave Beauties (2 013-2014) is a series of 12 black and white photographs celebrating lookin g at the body – and the experience of being seen. Stylish\, coy\, subtle and proud\, the gay and transgender men present a personal vision of them selves to the compassionate lens of Zanele’s camera. In a state where ex pressing the physical self that you want to be adored can lead to aggressi on and violent persecution\, the beauties of the series are even more so f or their bravery.\n\nFor Muholi\, Mo(u)rning (2014) evokes death but also suggests the cycle of life as morning follows night. Life and death\, love and hate are themes that run throughout her work. Tragic loss is addresse d in this series\, the persecution of a community and the coming together to remember those who have passed.\n\nThe exhibition is supported by Homot opia and Stevenson Cape Town. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2015/08/openeye-sept2015.jpg LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\ , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.40423;-2.994412 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Mann Island\, Liverpool Wat erfront\, Liverpool\, L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=1 00;X-TITLE=Open Eye Gallery:geo:53.40423,-2.994412 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR