There has not been much action on the Zimbabwean visual art scene for the past few months due to the covid-19 restrictions that have been in place for the greater part.
While some galleries managed to put some exhibitions together when the restrictive measures were relaxed, a stricter lockdown struck again at the beginning of the year which meant there was a need to find another way to push artworks.
Tomorrow First Floor Art Gallery will launch a new exhibition online titled Mirror Mirror! as part of the SOUTH SOUTH initiative.
The exhibition features brand new works by Troy Makaza, Wycliffe Mundopa, Amanda Mushate, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Helen Teede. It explores the Shona concept of ‘kufungisisa’ or ‘thinking too much’.
These are brilliant artistes who have created exceptional pieces in the past so this will be an exhibition to look out for.
The good part that it is being launched online which means it will be accessible even to those who are not in the country.
SOUTH SOUTH is an international online platform, a resource for artists, galleries, curators and collectors invested in the Global South.
The platform brings together more than fifty galleries from across five continents to present a more holistic world-view of contemporary art.
Meanwhile, SOUTH SOUTH VEZA will be a hybrid of a live selling event powered by auction technology and a peer-led Online Viewing Room (OVR).
“The pandemic lockdown has made a lot of space for self-reflection and kufungisisa for all of us. It has also made this space a global phenomenon. Mirror Mirror! then is a brief survey of the broadest spectrum of subjects that artists have had too much thinking time for in the oscillation between lockdown levels in Harare over the past few months,” said the exhibition curator.
