DAVID GOLDBLATT – STRANGE INSTRUMENT
2021-03-08Strange Instrument brings together 45 photographs documenting South Africa-where David Goldblatt was born in 1930 and lived until his death in 2018-at the height of apartheid, between the early 1960s and the end of the 1980s.
Curated by artist and activist Zanele Muholi, who was Goldblatt’s friend and mentee, the exhibition offers a deeply personal meditation on the brutality and humanity that Goldblatt captured in his strikingly beautiful images of everyday lives under conditions of profound injustice. Taking an expansive and affective approach to their mentor’s body of work, the exhibition presents a portrait of Goldblatt himself through Muholi’s eyes.
Opposite – George and Sarah Manyane, 3153 Emdeni Extension, August 1972
Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2021
Pace/MacGill Gallery
540 West 25th St
New York
NY 10022
