ものが王冠になるとき、
When Things Become a Crown,
ザネレ・ムホリ|Zanele Muholi10.3 SAT - 10.26 MON
TOFROM YAESU TOWER
ザネレ・ムホリ Bester VIII, Philadelphia 2018年
Courtesy Zanele Muholi; Southern Guild, Cape Town/New York; and Yancey Richardson, New York. © Zanele Muholi
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TOFROM YAESU TOWER
Photography began with appropriation. Shoot, capture, expose—the language of photography is the language of possession and control. The camera has long been the privilege of those behind the lens, while African bodies have continued to be treated as objects to be seen. The centerpiece of this exhibition, Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness), is the most fundamental response to this structure. Muholi turns the camera toward the self, reweaving clothespins and rubber gloves—the tools of a mother who lived as a domestic worker and of people often forced into labor—into crowns and body adornments. When these everyday tools become crowns, the memory of dispossession is rewritten as pride. A body rendered in deep black gazes back at us from the center of the image. Who looks at whom? Muholi shifts the direction of the gaze, and yet, takes nothing back from those who once took from others. Photography ceases to be “evidence” of existence, transformed into an act of self-definition: “I am here. In this form, I define myself.” Value is created without taking anything from anyone. The photographer and the photographed—long fixed as opposing sides of a binary—come together on Muholi’s body, where 対 (opposition) is rewritten as と (and). The question ultimately falls on our own gaze. Whom are you looking at, and from which side?
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