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Nonzuzo Gxekwa’s optic is loving. It’s not simply that she chooses to focus on moments of self love—the way people occupy themselves—but that in the taking, her subjects are never wholly circumscribed. There is always space to manoeuvre. The title of her exhibition, Life is Beautiful (2020), is not simply a conscious decision to focus on that which brings joy, but an awareness of our agency in the construction thereof and its capacity to overcome. As described by Ashraf Jamal, photographs “negate chronology, they confect it, altering what we recall and what we imagine. They are dreaming tools, never facts … What matters is not the thing seen, but what it affirms in the moment of seeing"... Read more.
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Inside Nonzuzo Gxekwa's Time Machine
Mail & GuardianTime is significant to the images Nonzuzo Gxekwa makes. Occupying conventions of portraiture and street photography, and sometimes unsettling these genres altogether, Gxekwa’s photographs tend to wrestle past and present as she captures the bricolage of city life in Johannesburg.
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Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Republik | The City DiaryThrough the visual excerpts we see ourselves in all these people and in these moments. I like the idea of enjoying the captured moment for myself. But I also like the idea that someone else sees this moment too and puts it together into a story of its own.
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Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Oath MagazineNonzuzo Gxekwa's work is included within the first volume of Oath Magazine, a bi-annual publication that celebrates and promotes emerging photographers from across the African continent.
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African Lens
Collector's Edition | Nonzuzo GxekwaCollectors Edition is a three volume publication produced by African Lens, an independent publication featuring and celebrating African photographers both in the motherland and across the diaspora. The publication features the work of Nonzuzo Gxekwa.
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