Renowned for his ongoing seris of portraits of South African urban migrants in their domestic spaces, Zwelethu Mthethwa’s new interiors marks an erasure of the figure. Space now function as surrogate for his subject. The in-situ signage and décor – a symbol of the economics and cultural politics of the informal settlements he photographs, provide a setting wherein the body remains legible even in its absence.
— Lauri Firstenberg

Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Jack Shainman, New York; Museum of Art, Cleveland; Kunsthalle/ Gegenwart, Hamburg; 2002: Luckman Fine Art Museum, St. Louis; Marco Noire, Turin; 2000: Jack Shainman, New York; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma; Kunstalle, Berne; At Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; 1999: Fondazione Bevilacqua, Venice.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Body and the Archive, Artists Space, New York; 2000: Art-World dialogue, Cologne; Mirades Impudiques, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona; Kwangju Biennale; Say Aids, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin; Foto Biennale, Rotterdam; Dakar Biennale; 1999: Liberated Voices, The Museum of African Art, New York; Rewind Fast Fastward. Za, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Holland; PhotoEspane 99, Barcelona; Triennale der Photographie, Hamburg; Towards-Transit, Zurich; Triennale di Milano; 1998: Houston Photo Festival; Dakar Biennale; Africa, Africa, Tobu Museum, Tokyo; Africa by Africa, Barbican, London.