Inkanyiso brings together three new bodies of photographic work: new portraits in the ongoing series Faces and Phases (2010-11); Beulahs (2007-10) and Transfigures (2010-11), and the documentary Difficult Love (2010). As always, Muholi is upfront about her agenda as an activist, seeking to educate the viewer on 'the complexities and fluidity of gender'. The title of the show, Inkanyiso, means 'illumination' or 'light' in Zulu, and it is Muholi's aim to 'shine a light onto viewers' understanding of gender and sexuality&#...

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STEVENSON is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Sabelo Mlangeni. Ghost Towns brings together two bodies of work: Mlangeni's recent photographs of small towns and his At Home series which will be shown in Cape Town for the first time.

At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty; the landscape assumes unreal contours, and light and dust make everything look as if suspended in time. These pla...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Pieter Hugo.

For the past year Hugo has been photographing the people and landscape of an expansive dump of obsolete technology in Ghana. The area, on the outskirts of a slum known as Agbogbloshie, is referred to by local inhabitants as Sodom and Gomorrah, a vivid acknowledgment of the profound inhumanity of the place. When Hugo asked the inhabitants what they called the pit where the burning takes place, they repeatedly responded: 'For this place, we have no name'.

Their response is a reminder of the alien circumst...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to exhibit David Goldblatt's essay, In Boksburg, taken in 1979-1980 on the East Rand of the Witwatersrand. Goldblatt's book was published in 1982 but this will be the first time that the full series has been shown in the 30 years since the photographs were taken.

The spread of Boksburg's new suburbs across the veld and the daily life of the town encapsulated - to Goldblatt's eye - the intricacies of the lunacy of ordinary white middle-class life in the years of apartheid. As he wrote in the foreword: 'Boksburg is shaped by white dreams and white proprieties. Most of its townspeople pursue the fam...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photographs by Pieter Hugo.

In the Nollywood series, Hugo explores the multilayered reality of the Nigerian film industry. Photographs from the series were included on the exhibition Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention at Michael Stevenson in May 2008. Hugo has subsequently returned to Nigeria to extend and deepen this body of work, and the series will be published in book form by Prestel in October 2009.

Nollywood is the third largest film industry in the world, releasing between 500 and 1 000 movies each year. It produces movie...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Youssef Nabil, his second at the gallery following Sleep in My Arms in 2007.

The exhibition will bring together hand-coloured photographs of celebrities and friends, self-portraits, and scenes staged over the past 15 years. Nabil was born in 1972 in Cairo. He studied literature and began producing his photographs while still living there. In this time he took many glamorous portraits of singers and stars such as Natacha Atlas, Naguib Mahfouz, Youssra and legendary belly-dancer Fifi Abdou. He later moved to Paris and New York, where he has continued to produce haunt...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Berni Searle, featuring a number of major new video works made this year.

This will be Searle's fourth solo exhibition at Michael Stevenson, following Crush in 2006, About to forget in 2005, and Vapour in 2004. As in all these previous shows, Searle's work draws on the particularities of her own cultural heritage, invoking the rituals and traditions that persist through generations and continue to bind communities together long after the circumstances of their genesis have passed or been forgotten. Yet the lyrical, abstracted nature of her visual imagery ensures th...

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ARTIST / EXHIBITION NOTICES

# Berni Searle has solo exhibitions at Transit Art Space in Stavanger, Norway (10 October - 23 November) and at Obrestad Lighthouse as part of Stavanger's European Capital of Culture project (opening 11 October). She will show the commissioned work Seeking Refuge on Traversiá at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, Canary Islands (opening 17 October). Spirit of '76 will be screened at the Opera House in Bruges, Belgium, on the exhibition The Messenger (10 October - 23 November).

# Pieter Hugo's exhibition at Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, part of the K...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to present Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention. The exhibition will mark the opening of the gallery's new premises in Woodstock, Cape Town, on Thursday 15 May, and the gallery's fifth birthday celebrations.

In popular culture, the archetypal disguise is Superman's pair of glasses, which turn him into Clark Kent. This particular case reveals something: often that which is disguised is hidden in plain view. Everyone familiar with the movies or comic strips has wondered, at some point, why Lois Lane does not recognise that her two love interests are one and the same.



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David Goldblatt's photographs of the last decade are an ongoing exploration of the intersections between people, values and land in post-apartheid South Africa. They develop and take into new terrain the approach underlying much of his work in the years of apartheid, work which culminated in his monumental South Africa: The Structure of Things Then (published by Oxford, 1998). The series was exhibited at the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1998.

In his show at Michael Stevenson in January/February 2008, photographs from various essays undertaken in the years of apartheid are pai...

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