Zwelethu Mthethwa, the exhibition and the Aperture book, present Mthethwa’s powerful series of portraits portraying black South Africans as relentlessly dignified and defiant, even under the duress of social and economic hardship.

The Artist’s Voice_Zwelethu Mthethwa and Naomi Beckwith in Conversation
The Studio Museum In Harlem- New York, NY
07/15/10

Inner Views is Mthethwa’s first solo museum exhibition in New York will be on view at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Don’t miss the rare opportunity to hear Mthethwa, a key figure in the South African post-apartheid photography movement in multiple events surrounding the opening. Working in both urban and rural industrial landscapes, Mthethwa documents a range of issues pertaining to South Africa—from domestic life and the environment to landscape and labor issues. His images challenge the conventions of both Western documentary work and African commercial studio photography, marking a transition away from the visually exotic and diseased—or “Afro-pessimism,” as the monograph’s contributing author Okwui Enwezor has referred to it—by employing a fresh approach marked by color and collaboration.

Event Info:

Thursday, July 15| 7:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
Thursday, July 15–Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street
New York, New York

Zwelethu Mthethwa:Artist’s Talk, Book Signing and Reception
Friday, July 16| 6:30 pm

Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Arts
80 Hanson Place
Brooklyn, New York