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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami — Mamoyo and Persephone's Final Cycle
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

Mamoyo and Persephone's Final Cycle

2025

Two dark skinned male figures occupy a sparse interior defined by white bedding and a dark background. The seated figure on the left, rendered in deep red brown tones, gazes downward in a posture of vulnerability or introspection, while a second figure looms behind in shadow. The composition employs bold gestural brushwork across oil, acrylic, and pencil, creating a tension between figuration and abstraction. Hwami's practice engages with mythology, the body, and intimacy as sites for examining desire, mortality, and transformation, positioning this work within contemporary figurative painting's ongoing dialogue with post colonial and queer art histories.

Medium
Oil, acrylic and pencil on linen
Overall

Notes

Victoria Miro, Frieze New York 2026, Booth A07, May 13–17, 2026.

For Sale — £125000

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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Mamoyo and Persephone's Final Cycle, 2025

Two dark skinned male figures occupy a sparse interior defined by white bedding and a dark background. The seated figure on the left, rendered in deep red brown tones, gazes downward in a posture of vulnerability or introspection, while a second figure looms behind in shadow. The composition employs bold gestural brushwork across oil, acrylic, and pencil, creating a tension between figuration and abstraction. Hwami's practice engages with mythology, the body, and intimacy as sites for examining desire, mortality, and transformation, positioning this work within contemporary figurative painting's ongoing dialogue with post colonial and queer art histories.

Medium
Oil, acrylic and pencil on linen
Dimensions
overall: 230 x 172 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
Victoria Miro Gallery, United Kingdom

Related themes

Dark Palette, Interior Scene, Post Colonial Art, Mixed Media, Body Politics, Mythology Contemporary, Linen Canvas, Queer Art, Gestural Abstraction, Male Nudity, Figurative Art, Contemporary Painting, 21st Century Art, Oil Painting, Vulnerability Intimacy, Desire Mortality, Zimbabwean Artist, Red Brown Tones, Large Scale, Contemporary Figuration

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