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Tashinga Majiri: Hands are metaphors — they represent people and carry memory, family, livelihood

First Floor Gallery Harare presents Maoko Maranda, a new body of work by Zimbabwean artist Tashinga Majiri. Here, hands are never just hands — they become metaphors for identity, memory, and resilience. They carry stories of labor and struggle, but also of tenderness and creation. In this conversation, Majiri also speaks about hands as characters, the rhythm linking his poetry and paintings, and the dialogue between tradition and contemporary life.