“For Terrence Musekiwa, Zimbabwe’s tumultuous state of affairs provided the impetus for his figures… Exquisitely sculpted heads give each figure a unique personality. On the gallery’s wall, two floating heads oversee the crowd. One wears police riot gear while the other points a slingshot.
Musekiwa exists on the margins of past and present, tradition and innovation, the physical world and the invisible spirits, order and disorder; between the discarded objects he finds in Harare’s infamous scrapyards, and the inherently political sculptures he transforms these into.
“I am always trying to find balance between opposite forces – the place where opposites meet; the shape that meeting takes.”
The artist, who does not believe in History, but instead in its ability to be repeatedly rewritten, engages in a global discussion on the now – what now is and how now tends to reorganize what is here. History is an attempt to create order.”
Art Daily, November 22, 2018