GRESHAM NYUADE


Nyaude works against the sweeping identity, which has been defined for Zimbabweans by the voice of the state and domestic and international media. To this day Mbare retains the character of a port city with its trade, shady deals and otherwise bustle of unremitting human traffic amid urban decay. In Mbare, one finds a vibrancy of life persisting despite every obstacle.

His images oscillate between figuration, abstraction and hallucination, drawing from the restless energy of his neighbourhood and its youth, in a country, where more than 60% of the population is under the age of 26. Living on the edge between survival and chaos has been a call to poetry, swinging between brutal and sentimental but almost invariably cynical and satirical.