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Intuition, that inner voice capable of perceiving the world unconsciously through the accumulation of knowledge and experience, runs through the work of Virginia Chihota (Zimbabwe, 1983).
In her work, an overwhelming force comes into tension with the need to find refuge. A safe space for art, protected as if it was inside a womb —an organ that tends to be associated with fertility in African art and that Virginia Chihota often draws— where the artist voluntarily isolates herself in order to name the unnamable, question the material conditions necessary for artistic production, explore her …