Event Difficult Love

Difficult Love

Screening

31 May 2025
2–3pm

Zanele Muholi and Peter Goldsmid‘s documentary Difficult Love (2010) is a personal take on the challenges facing black lesbians in South Africa. Mulholi, an internationally celebrated South African activist-artist, presents the intricate mesh of their political, artistic, and personal life through intimate photography and interviews with their friends, colleagues, and peers.

The screening will be introduced by Amelia Barikin, from the Kink collective. It is presented alongside Kink’s showcase of queer Australian art You Are Here Too.

Content Warning: This film references physical and sexual violence and trauma.

Guest Info
  • Amelia Barikin is Associate Professor in Art History at the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, and a member of the Kink collective. They were previously an ARC Senior Research Associate at the University of Melbourne, and have also worked as a curator and editor with various arts institutions.

Related Exhibition

You Are Here Too

12 Apr–29 Jun 2025

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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