“My practice as a visual activist looks at black resistance,
existence, as well as insistence,” asserted Zanele Muholi. “Most of the work I have
done over the years focuses exclusively on black LGBTQIA and gender-nonconforming
individuals, making sure we exist in the visual archive. The key question that I
take to bed with me is: what is my responsibility as a living being—as a South African
citizen reading continually about racism, xenophobia, and hate crimes in the
mainstream media?” In ZaVa, Amsterdam, Muholi, along with partner, Valérie, acts
as both creator and subject of proud, truthful, LGBTQIA-centered imagery.