In Her Spiritual Art, Portia Zvavahera Paints the Tension between Her Dreamworld and the Everyday

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In Her Spiritual Art, Portia Zvavahera Paints the Tension between Her Dreamworld and the Everyday

In a short video interview released as part of “Zvakazarurwa” (Revelations), Portia Zvavahera’s exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, UK, the painter describes a dream she had while pregnant. “I saw rats coming to attack me in my sleep,” she said. “It felt like I was under a tree in that dream. And there was so much darkness.” Shortly thereafter, she reconstructed the dream in a painting titled Pane rima rakakomba (I) (There’s Too Much Darkn…