This workshop is aimed at people of the Global Majority, Black people and Black diasporic communities, as well as Indigenous communities.
In a world shaped by imperialism, capitalism, white narcissism and patriarchal violence, Black people have repeatedly been portrayed through the gaze of others: catalogued, exoticised, questioned about their supposedly "real" origins, and having their bodily self-determination called into question.
Zanele Muholi responds to this with images that strengthen the community itself, rather than exposing it to the consuming gaze of others. Gê Viana, currently on view at MEZEKERE, intervenes in colonial visual worlds and returns the archive to those who have previously been excluded from it. Abiona Esther Ojo devotes herself to her family's diaspora bags and Afro-diasporic hair practices as carriers of knowledge, history and resistance.
In Abiona Esther Ojo's workshop, the camera changes hands.