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Featured in Kresiah Mukwazhi Gives Sex Workers a Voice
At Jan Kaps, Cologne, the artist highlights the economic precarity of sex workers and the movements encouraging positive change
Certain images, once seen, remain seared on our minds forever. Such is the case with Harare-based artist Kresiah Mukwazhi’s excellent film
Thirst (all works 2020), currently screening as part of her first European exhibition, ‘Mukando’, at Jan Kaps. On a chair set against a leopard-print curtain sits a woman, empty bottles strewn at her feet, framed by lengths of the bright-pink fabric often used to decorate rooms in Zimbabwe. Her black dress and red jacket contrast starkly with her neon-blue wig. Her cheap artificial hair recalls the lurid hues of the wigs worn by women in Kenneth Gyang’s prize-winning film