Terrence Musekiwa
Revolution, 2016

“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

Head of cattle, 2016, stone, mirror, metal, rubber, glue and paint, slingshot, and wire, 28 × 12 × 6.5 in | 71 × 30 × 16 cm

brak watcher, 2016, stone, helmet, sweeping brush head, elastic cotton, and wire, 89 × 19 × 11 in | 226 × 48 × 28 cm

brak watcher, 2016 (detail)