Portia Zvavahera

The ICA Boston will present Portia Zvavahera’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. The exhibition includes a selection of recent paintings centered on the theme of animals, a reflection on their presence in her work, as well as the collective imagination. The artist draws from dreams to create fantastical paintings that evoke moments of transition and transcendence. Zvavahera’s work merges painting and printmaking techniques with motifs and patterns from Zimbabwean textile designs into vibrant and layered compositions. Zvavahera was raised in the traditions of African Pentecostalism, and across her work she engages with her Christian faith in equal measure to animistic cosmologies. For the artist, the act of painting is akin to an act of worship. Her figures commune with spirits, animals, and angels, and protective comforts and nightmares collide in otherworldly, stirring unions. 

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