Portia Zvavahera: Tanda rima
On nowGrounded Art editorialA major exhibition by the Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera at the Norval Foundation, presented as part of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair programme.
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Further information
- Artist
- Portia Zvavahera (b. 1985, Zimbabwe)
- Format
- Major solo exhibition
- Context
- Part of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair programme
- Media
- Layered paintings using printmaking, stencilling and wax
Three reasons to look closer
Courtesy Norval Foundation / Portia Zvavahera A world built from dreams
Portia Zvavahera's Tanda rima gathers densely layered paintings shaped by dreams, prayer, and Shona forms of thought in a major solo exhibition at Norval Foundation. Visitors meet a world of women, ritual, veiled figures, and charged surfaces that unfolds through atmosphere as much as narrative.
Courtesy Norval Foundation / Portia Zvavahera Read the surface slowly
Zvavahera builds each canvas with pigment, printmaking, stencils, lace, and batik wax, letting figures and patterns emerge through repeated layers. Watch how those textures hold bodies between concealment and revelation, turning each surface into part image, part emotional weather.
Courtesy Norval Foundation / Portia Zvavahera Harare meets Cape Town's art calendar
Presented within the Investec Cape Town Art Fair programme, Tanda rima places a Zimbabwean painter with an established international career at the centre of Cape Town's season. The exhibition is a timely chance to see how a globally recognised practice stays rooted in Shona language, dreams, and spiritual life.
Sources
- Portia Zvavahera · Stevenson
- Tanda rima · Norval Foundation
- Exhibitions · Norval Foundation