Ziroto

Ziroto, meaning a significant dream or prophecy, in Shona, is a visual elegy of memory, loss, and the violence of historical silence. It is a depiction of Chaminuka’s prophecy of the coming of Europeans to what is now Zimbabwe.

In Ziroto, history is not a neutral record, but a battleground. The work is a quiet indictment of cultural displacement and the dangers of forgetting. Through it, we are asked: who controls remembrance? And what happens when even our descendants no longer recognise us?