ART ESCAPE

Zanele Muholi (Umlazi, South Africa)

A visual artist an activist. Who co-founded “The Forum for the Empowerment of Women“ an organisation dedicated to providing a safe space for women. Muholi has developed her art as a protest against the many ways of discrimination that she, and the women around her have suffered for reasons of colour, gender and sexual orientation.
In her personality it is possible to appreciate the struggle that the black majority has gone through in a country like South Africa. Her main objective is to fight for the denounce of the practice of "corrective rape" against black women in her country. The main thing to realize when one goes deep into her work is the courage she shows in every one of her pieces. She refuses to stay quiet about the situation in South Africa and in her images she is able to show that love is not only a natural thing but something that should be respected and admired, something nobody should die or be abused for. Zanele is one of those artists that has the courage of standing up and telling the truth and the best thing about this is that she is able to do it in such a beautiful way. (Daniela)