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“If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.”

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Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer renowned for her profound documentation of the LGBTQ+ community. Her work focuses on gender and racial identity, expressing a pursuit of diversity and inclusivity through photographic art. more

“I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work is going to be exhibited. And since some of the work I do is created onsite, it requires a different type of space, versus the smaller drawings or more subject-oriented work. So that the context becomes important.”

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Author:Shahzia Sikander

“Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.”

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Author:Shahzia Sikander

“For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty.”

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Author:David Altmejd

“You're not as good as you think you are.”

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Author:Eddie Martinez

“The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.”

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Author:Julie Mehretu

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