Influential artist and activist Zanele Muholi discusses their work in conversation with Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, including the ongoing portraiture series Faces and Phases. Select works from the series, which seeks to document and uplift Black queer South African communities, are on view in i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times.

Zanele Muholi HonFRPS is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi’s work focuses on race, gender, and sexuality with a body of work looking at Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex individuals.