Encounters with the universe of Zanele Muholi

To believe that Zanele Muholi, self-proclaimed "visual activist" South African photographer is suing me. The first meeting takes place when leaving the Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (magnificent Venetian palace) by recovering a booklet showing a portrait of a black woman wearing a funny hairstyle. The look, this hairstyle, the black background, all the elements were brought together to make a drawing (see other portrait). The second will be done as part of a drawing course at the European House of Photography in the midst of trouble and repeated degradation linked (?) to protests against the pension reform. Although I ask myself many questions about the questioning of the definition of Gender as if nature must necessarily be reinvented by Man, I admire these poignant portraits of women and denounce the injustices and excesses of this world.