Strauss & co - 15 February 2020, Cape Town

35  MUSA N NXUMALO SOUTH AFRICAN 1986– Toi Toi 2017 edition 2/6 + 2AP giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 168 by 237cm R40 000 – 60 000 Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. EXHIBITED SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg, Musa N Nxumalo: 16 Shots , 16 to 29 April 2017. SMAC Gallery, 1-54 London , 3 to 6 October 2019. Musa N. Nxumalo’s work dives deep into black alternative youth culture in Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city. His exuberant nightlife images carry an energy and enthusiasm that can only be shown by someone who is living, growing, and discovering themselves in that same world. Nxumalo’s photographs, showing his peers’ fashion choices and the music they listen to, work to challenge prevailing social and racial stereotypes within South African culture, and give voice to discontented youth within his community who are trying to express themselves freely. “Because racism is a form of grave stupidity,” he says, “my work intends to dispel these tendencies anywhere in the world where the work can reach.” 1 1.  https://aperture.org/shop/musa-n-nxumalo- box-set/ 50