Notes

′The artist is celebrated for his multi-layered landscapes and portraits of loved ones drawn from memories of his upbringing in the mountainous Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Muchawaya’s paintings represent an association of distant memories, a dream-like flash of persons and places that shape an impression of half-remembered recollections. As with memories, the works encompass all embellishments and subjectivities layered on top of one another. His unsettling, faceless portraits make way for recognition, and leave room for the viewers to insert their own narrative and memories. Muchawaya’s portraits are a complex confluence of portraiture and self-portraiture, autobiography, and fiction.′

Duende Art Projects (no date) Mostaff Muchawaya, online, https://www.duendeartprojects.com/artists/73-mostaff-muchawaya/overview/, accessed 26 February 2024.