Tschabalala Self (b. 1990)

“I aspire to hold space and create a cultural vacuum in which these bodies can exist for their own pleasure and self-realisation, free of the other’s assertions and the othering gaze … My subjects are fully aware of their conspicuousness and are unmoved by their viewers. Their role is not to show, explain, or perform but rather “to be.” In being, their presence is acknowledged and their significance felt.”
- Tschabalala Self