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Pace Gallery opens an exhibition that brings together 45 photographs by David Goldblatt
Installation view of David Goldblatt: Strange Instrument, 540 West 25th Street, New York, February 26 March 27, 2021. Photography courtesy of Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Pace Gallery is presenting David Goldblatt: Strange Instrument, an exhibition that brings together 45 photographs documenting South Africawhere Goldblatt was born in 1930 and lived until his death in 2018at the height of apartheid, between the early 1960s and the end of the 1980s. Curated by artist and activist Zanele Muholi, who was Goldblatts friend and mentee, the exhibition offers a deeply personal meditation on the brutality and humanity that Goldblatt captured in his strikingly beautiful images of everyday lives under conditions of profound injustice. Strange Instrumenton view February 26 March 27, 2021marks the first time that Muholi has engaged with Goldblatts work since his passing in 2018. Taking