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Kudzanai Chiurai

Selected Artworks

Oil on canvas
Work: 150 x 120 cm
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Oil on canvas
Work: 150 x 120 cm
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Pigment inks on premium satin photo paper
Work: 145 x 200 cm
Pigment ink on fibre paper
Work: 142.4 x 152.4 cm
Pigment ink on Fibre paper
Image: 180 x 120 cm Work: 205 x 140 cm Frame: 209 x 143.8 x 5 cm
Mixed media on Saunders archival cotton rag paper
Work: 76 x 57 cm
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Mixed media on handmade premium art paper
Work: 120 x 80 cm
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Single-channel film
Variable Dimensions
Mixed media on handmade art premium art paper
Work: 120 x 80 cm
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Sound installation, wood, fabric, neon and wallpaper
Work: 220 x 221 x 128 cm
Pigment ink on fibre paper
Work: 150 x 193.5 cm
Pigment ink on fibre paper
Work: 193.5 x 150 cm

About

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Kudzanai Chiurai (b. 1981, Zimbabwe) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in photography, drawings, film, painting, and sculpture. Chiurai was born one year after Zimbabwe gained independence from British rule, therefore his practice largely focuses around cycles of political, economic and social conflict present in postcolonial societies.

Chiurai’s latest project, The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember, is built around his collecting practice focused on preserving archives and memorialising social and cultural history from southern Africa. "The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember is a work that I consider to be itself a form of liberated zone. I consider the archival material and recording as broadcasts of Afro-futures. A frequency that mobilised and energised the struggle for independence and liberation. It’s an archive that brings the past into the present and will continue to echo as we consider our futures.” – Kudzanai Chiurai

Chiurai has held numerous solo exhibitions since 2003 and has participated in various local and international exhibitions, such as Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography (2011) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now (2011) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Other notable exhibitions include The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited curated by Simon Njami at Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2014) and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah USA (2015), as well as Art/Afrique, Le nouvel atelier (2017) at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Regarding the Ease of Others (2017) at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Genesis [Je n’isi isi]- We Live in Silence at IFA in Stuttgart, Germany and Ubuntu, a Lucid Dream (2020) at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Chiurai’s Conflict Resolution series was exhibited at DOCUMENTA (13) (2012) in Kassel and the film Iyeza was one of the few African films to be included in the New Frontier shorts programme at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Chiurai has held numerous solo exhibitions with Goodman Gallery and has edited four publications with contributions by leading African creatives.

At present the artist lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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Exhibitions

Basel Artfair
13 June - 16 June 2024
London Gallery
02 April - 08 May 2024

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