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Aindrea Emelife Instagram – A LOOK BACK AT BLACK VENUS @fotografiska ⁠
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1: Zanele Muholi – Miss Lesbian I | Miss Lesbian II⁠ (2009)⁠
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Zanele Muholi has been documenting the lives of Black lesbian gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people in townships in South Africa for decades. Muholi’s visual projects are all rooted in their desire to create a Black queer and trans visual history of South Africa. They see their work as a form of resistance, showing lived experiences that have long been marginalised and even erased. Muholi turns the camera on themselves, too, in a striking, theatrical series that explores the politics of race and representation. ⁠
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2: Widline Cadet – On A Clear Day, I Thought I Saw Forever ⁠(2020)⁠
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This image instantly draws up associations with the idea of beauty and desire. For Cadet, one of the earliest ways she became aware of her Boyd was through R&B and Hip-Hop music videos. “Seeing how other Black women in those videos occupied their bodies with a kind of freedom, confidence, and self-assuredness of their beauty and desirability was unimaginable to a shy, immigrant kid” Cadet reasons. On A Clear Day, I Thought I Saw Forever gives form to some of the memories of those videos from her early teen years, borrowing some of the visual cues from them. ⁠
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3: Jenn Nkiru – Hub Tones⁠ (2018)⁠
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Hub Tones is a mesmerising exploration of Nigerian-British director Jenn Nkiru’s heritage elicited by saxophonist Kamsai Washington’s explosive jazz-fusion cover of a Freddie Hubbard tune. Nkiru describes how Hub Tones gave her an “immediate ecstatic connection”, referring to an invoked sudden desire to delve into the culture of her ancestry. The film fixates on three female dancers who appear trance-like, dressed head toe with symbolism, as Nkiru considers the solidarity of Pan-Africanism. | Posted on 18/Aug/2022 21:32:37