"I am capturing the hardship."

Shalom Kufakwatenzi (b. 1995, Harare, Zimbabwe) is a multidisciplinary artist working across textile, fibre art, photography and performance, among the most promising voices of Zimbabwe's new generation. Her densely worked textile pieces, sewn from hessian, wool, fishing and tobacco twine, leather and upholstery canvas, materials bound to agricultural labour, address identity, land, displacement and the experience of feeling like a foreigner at home. Selected by Adriano Pedrosa for the international exhibition "Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere" at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), where she presented "Under the Sea" and "Mubatanidzwa (Adjoined)" at the Arsenale, she held her first solo exhibition, "The Cocoon: A Be-You-Till-Full Space", in Harare later that year. She lives and works in Harare.