ABOUT THE CURATOR
Renée Mussai is a London-based independent curator, scholar, and writer with a special interest in Black feminist visual arts practices. As the former senior curator and head of curatorial and collections at Autograph, London, Mussai has organized numerous critically acclaimed group and solo exhibitions internationally and was responsible for a diverse range of artist commissions, publications, and research initiatives for more than two decades. Alongside her curatorial and scholarly practice, she is a research associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg and an associate lecturer at University of the Arts London; between 2009 and 2020, she was guest curator and non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. In 2023, Mussai served as co-curator for R/evolutions, the 14th edition of PhotoIreland Festival, and artistic director of the Walther Collection. Her publications include the award-winning artist monographs Lina Iris Viktor: Some Are Born to Endless Night (2020) and Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama (2018; 2024); the co-edited volumes Care, Contagion, Community: Self & Other (2021) and Ecologies of Care: Speculative Photographies, Curatorial Re-Positionings (2020); and the forthcoming Eyes That Commit—A Visual Gathering and Black Chronicles—Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain (both 2025).