Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present 'Virginia Chihota: Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?/What do you see when you look at me ohh God?' Chihota inimitably visualises her inner world as an emotionally shifting, symbolic terrain—a reconnaissance marked by vigilance, self-questioning, and transformative resolution. These new works originate from a question that unexpectedly came to her, 'what do you see when you look at me?'. The recurring motif of a seat, specifically a stool, becomes the pedestal for the represented body (her own) in direct observation and conversation with the Divine. A series of gesturally restless, and physiologically awkward standing or...
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Artist portrait. Photo: Deniz GuzelVirginia Chihota (b. 1983 in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe) currently lives and works in New York, USA. She graduated in Fine Arts from the National Art Gallery Studios in Harare, Zimbabwe in 2006. Chihota represented Zimbabwe at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and was awarded the Prix Canson in the same year. In 2021, her works were commissioned by the Opéra Nation...
