Virginia Chihota
the root of the flower we do not know (mudzi weruva ratisingazive)
About this Item
Zimbabwean 1983-
the root of the flower we do not know (mudzi weruva ratisingazive)
2014
signed
screenprint on paper, unique
119 by 79cm excluding frame; 127,5 by 86 by 5cm including frame
Notes
Through brilliant colour pairings and repeated motifs, Chihota explores the nature of relationships. The boundaries between self and nature are blurred in 'the root of the flower we do not know (mudzi weruva ratisingazive)', 2014, as the central figure's form seems to meld with the flowers it is holding.1
1. https://www.artsy.net/article/editorialvirginia-chihota-blurs-the-boundariesbetween-self, accessed 17 February 2023.
Provenance
Tiwani Contemporary, Cape Town Art Fair, 2015.
Private Collection, Cape Town.
Exhibited
Tiwani Contemporary, London, A Thorn in my Flesh (munzwa munyama yangu), 9 January to 7 February 2015.
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