With all your friends

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

With all your friends, 201930 x 30cmSign in to view price
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Material
oil on canvas
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork features a vibrant, colorful composition dominated by a group portrait of several African children set against a dark, contrasting background. The vivid red, black, and pink tones create a bold and striking visual impact, while the diverse array of facial expressions and body language among the children suggest a sense of community and shared experience. The artist's distinctive painting style and choice of subject matter appear to convey a narrative about the lives and identities of the individuals depicted, potentially addressing broader social or cultural themes. This work likely reflects the artist's intention to celebrate the humanity and individuality of the children, offering a thoughtful commentary on identity, representation, and the human experience. ...

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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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