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feature: activist painter pauline n’gouala’s homophobia awareness project to exhibition in paris
Activist painter Pauline N’Gouala’s ongoing LGBT awareness project, ‘Varnishing’ is growing and back on exhibition in Paris. The series, which exhibited at AFROPUNK Fest Paris, began with the portraits of two LGBT and HIV/AIDS activists, Buhle Msibi and Busi Sigasa, were murdered in South Africa because of their sexual orientations.
N’Gouala’s current creative partner, photographer and South African activist Zanele Muholi, takes photographs of each subject and N’Gouala translates them onto canvas. Their project pays tribute to other artists and activists who have or had vested interest in afro-LGBT communities and LGBT rights and victims of homophobia.
‘Varnishing’ will be showing at The Mutiny in Paris Jan. 25 – Feb. 14.
By Erin White, AFROPUNK contributor
Painting of Buhle Msibi
Foreground portrait of Zozo Duduzile. Background portrait of Zanele Muholi.
Photo credit: Emilie Jouvet
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