Terrence Musekiwa
Tel Aviv, 2016

In 2016 Musekiwa took part in the Tiroche DeLeon art residency in Tel Aviv. He spent his initial weeks in the country conducting research and simply soaking in the culture around him. He was deeply influneced by the ancient spirituality and dispararte religious beliefs that all converge in this part of the world. The surprise was that he identified many ties to his Zimbabwean homeland and the Shona people who are not tipically associated with the various systems of belief encountered in Israel. Still, in relation to a connection to ancestors, Musekiwa found pure kinship.

He produced a stone-free series of works, partially out of necessity, and partially in an attempt to express the similarities and ideas he discovered in a language a bit more removed from the connections his stone carving has to Shona culture. He considers these works physical manifestations of the spiritual ties between his Shona background and the Jewish culture he immersed himself in.