Speaking in tongues

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

Speaking in tongues, 201918 x 30 x 30cmSign in to view price
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Material
oil on canvas
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This visually striking contemporary artwork consists of a grid of 16 square panels, each featuring a distinct abstract composition. The colors used range from bold reds and greens to more muted tones of blue and brown, creating a striking visual contrast. The shapes and forms within each panel vary, with some displaying organic, biomorphic elements while others lean towards geometric abstraction. The overall composition is visually arresting, showcasing the artist's mastery of color, form, and technique. Though abstract in nature, the work may allude to various symbolic or conceptual themes, inviting the viewer to engage with its multifaceted layers of meaning. ...

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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
Artist
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
B.1993, Zimbabwean

Having fled her homeland due to the political unrest and turmoil when she was a child, Zimbabwe-born painter Kudzanai-Violet Hwami expresses her personal experiences of dislocation, displacement and fragmentation through her striking figurative paintings. The artist is interested in the ‘collapsing of geography and time and space’ symptomatic of a globalised world and high-speed internet, through which both people and information can travel quickly. Because of this collapse, and with the inspiration of Robert Rauschenberg and Jean-Michel Basquiat, whom the artist describes as able to “think in collage”, Hwami’s paintings often display a patchwork of enigmatic transtemporal fragments, scattered and regathered vignettes. The artist often uses her own family photographs as source material, using the practice of painting as a means of reconnection, or estrangement. The background of Family Portrait (2017) is rendered in large smudges of primary colour, while a family sits on a sofa in the foreground, one of their faces scratched out in white paint, and a faint vertical line which bisects the painting, as well as the family itself. Behind them is another family portrait painted as an eerie photo negative. ...

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: Artworks
Medicine man
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
Medicine man, 2019
120 x 120cm
Newtown
Bira
Untitled
Sitting by Sekuru’s grave
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
Sitting by Sekuru’s grave, 2019
120 x 120cm
With all your friends
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
With all your friends, 2019
30 x 30cm
Untitled
Speaking in tongues
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
Speaking in tongues, 2019
18 x 30 x 30cm
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