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'Black Men in Dress' and 'Iimbali'
Sabelo Mlangeni at Stevenson in JohannesburgThis show brings together two bodies of work by artist Sabelo Mlangeni. The first, 'Black Men in Dress', comprises a series of portraits photographed at the Johannesburg and Soweto Pride, a yearly event for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) community. These portraits remind Mlangeni of a childhood where, as he describes:
'[M]ost communities had what we call "uSis'bhuti". This is a term used to describe a boy who behaves like a girl. Why then do we hate these boys when they have grown up to be men who dress as women? Why do we turn and call them names, pretending that we've never seen it? These are some of the issues I try to bring to the fore in this series'.
The second body of work, the 'Iimbali' series, was photographed at reed dances in Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal.
19 January - 24 February


