Artists

Portia Zvavahera

Press release

For Open Space #15, her first personal exhibition in France, Portia Zvavahera has conceived a new painting called Imba Yerumbidzo (House of Praise). Eight canvases gathered as panorama of near 17 meters long, this monumental painting unfolds in a curve covering the walls of the gallery 8, redesigning the space.

Portia Zvavahera’s paintings are based on her dreams. Steeped in Christian convictions and indigenous Zimbabwean beliefs, the artist considers her nocturnal visions to be prophecies, the emotional intensity of which she seeks to transcribe through painting. They raise questions of life and death, the material and the spiritual, love and solitude, the personal that touches the universal.

Curator: Ludovic Delalande (Fondation Louis Vuitton)