テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「This #NationalComingOutDay, we've invited Tate Guides to take a look at a few artworks through a queer lens. Next up Rosalind responds to Zanele Muholi's 'Ntozakhe II, Parktown' 2016. 'Zanele Muholi has created hundreds of triumphant self-portraits which form part of their series Somnyama Ngonyma, Zulu for “Hail the Dark Lioness.” In this photograph, the artist echoes the Statue of Liberty. They wear a toga, their chin is tilted, their hair is crowned in a mass of hair donuts. They are regal. Their expression is ambiguous, defiant and vulnerable. In this series, Muholi exaggerates their skin tone to reclaim their Blackness. Their skin glistens. They are powerful. This is a defiant act. "My reality is that I do not mimic being Black; it is my skin, and the experience of being Black is deeply entrenched in me. Just like our ancestors, we live as Black people 365 days a year, and we should speak without fear." Zanele Muholi says, "I came out as a same-gender loving person, but because there was no Zulu name for it, I was called a lesbian. But we move on, transpire, transgress, and transform in many ways; so I’m just human." They call themself a visual activist. It is a lasting political commitment. They want "the next generation of young queers and non-queers to know that we are here, that we were here. We owe it to ourselves to make sense of our lives and living." Born in 1972, on the East Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, at the height of South African apartheid, Zanele Muholi is now a world renowned artist with a solo exhibition opening at Tate Modern next month.'」10月12日 1時32分