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“Known for the work Faces and Phases (2006-ongoi “Known for the work Faces and Phases (2006-ongoing), an evolving archive of portraits of South African black lesbians, Zanele Muholi is a photographer who works fiercely against muting and invisibility. Preferring to be referred to as a “visual activist” rather than an artist, Muholi is co-founder of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women, as well as Inkanyiso, a platform for queer and visual activism. The importance of self-representation is central to Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (2012-ongoing), a series of unapologetic self-portraits that the artist intends to build into 365 images of a year in the life of a black lesbian in South Africa. The series includes works where the artist is defiantly or directly meeting the viewer’s gaze, on view in the Arsenale, and smaller silver gelatin prints where Muholi is avoiding and frustrating it, on view in the Central Pavilion.” #thistimelastyear #labiennaledivenezia #zanelemuholi Caption text extracted from Biennale Arte 2019 Short Guide. Image courtesy of the artist and La Biennale di Venezia.
This time last year @labiennale ‘May You Live in This time last year @labiennale ‘May You Live in Interesting Times.’ Installation view: Paintings by MICHAEL ARMITAGE @manairobi 📸 Courtesy of the artist + La Biennale di Venezia. #venicebiennale2019 #michaelarmitage
EC: Online harassment is a sad reality for artists EC: Online harassment is a sad reality for artists like you. CG: The nude body is still accepted as OK in painting and sculpture but, in photography, it is censored or looked at and seen as vulgar and cheap. I received phone calls asking me for sex and dick pictures sent to my in box; my images were shared between groups of friends as a laugh. Read more about the life and work of Charlene Gálea ❤️ Link in bio! Photo courtesy of artist @rixac
"When I came to Malta, no one knew about me or wou "When I came to Malta, no one knew about me or would have appreciated my ideas, especially art spaces or curators. So I used the digital platform without waiting for anyone in the art industry to give me space, DIY style. I always relied on my self to find my way and I know communication is the way to speak to an audience." Read my latest interview with artist Charlene Gálea - link in bio! Image courtesy of the artist @rixac #CreateYourself #contemporaryart #performanceart
“The project was really relevant before COVID-19 “The project was really relevant before COVID-19 as the research is about the commodification of the female body and identity as seen online. It’s about feeling the need to be seen as sexy and the efforts to be perceived as such, the competition between women and the repression women have to suffer to be seen as sexy. The exhibition criticises how capitalism has turned us into objects of display and focuses on erotic capital as promising women that that is what it takes to be happy when, in reality, all it does is make a woman feel that she is never enough.” Charlene Gálea on her first solo show Privat: The Natural Body As Fiction. Read more - link in bio! Photo credit of the artist @rixac and Jana Frost @janafrost.art #women #commodification #capitalism
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Hello, I am Eve Cocks, a passionate art critic and blogger. Welcome to evecocks.com where I share some of my experiences and thoughts about modern and contemporary visual art in Malta and elsewhere.

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