Somnyama Ngonyama. Hail the Dark Lioness Volume 2

The highly anticipated second volume of the self-portrait series from visual activist Zancle Muholi explores and expands upon new personas and poetic interpretations of person hood, Blackness, and queerness. Somnyama Ngonyama includes nearly one hundred images created since the first volume in 2018, as well as new contributions from scholars and authors that invigoratethe work with fresh perspectives, building upon the artist's conceptual, poetic, and experimental framework.
Powerfully arresting, this latest collection of Muholi's ongoing self-portrait practice further amplifies their expressive and radical manifesto of the possibilities of self.