Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023

Evening Sale
  • Virginia Chihota; the root of the flower we do not know (mudzi weruva ratisingazive)
  • Virginia Chihota; the root of the flower we do not know (mudzi weruva ratisingazive)
  • Virginia Chihota; the root of the flower we do not know (mudzi weruva ratisingazive)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000

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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