Pyda Nyariri’s Paivapo explores language, opacity and belonging

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

ArtThrob considers Pyda Nyariri’s Paivapo at Cape Town’s Association for Visual Arts through the fictional figure Pidgin. The Zimbabwean-born artist combines relief paintings, cotton gauze and clay with sound by Denise Onen and writing by Rabia Abba Omar. The review reads these interlocking elements through Édouard Glissant’s ideas about relation and opacity, arguing that their elusive language resists colonial classification and opens possibilities for collective belonging.

Summarised from ArtThrob · Sandra Dodson. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.