Muholi calls herself a “visual activist” who challenges thinking in binary categories of male / female and black / white with portraits of people who do not correspond to common expectations. Muholi’s images may well be so effective because they confound our notion of order and highlight the fact that our language has no appropriate expression for what we see. The exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of works by Zanele Muholi in Switzerland.

(Photo courtesy Guggenheim Collection Online © Zanele Muholi)