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A Royal African Dialect by O'Neal Tanaka Maisiri

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O'Neal Tanaka Maisiri

Zimbabwe

O'Neal Tanaka Maisiri, also known as Tanakawamwari, is a visual artist and poet from Harare, working across painting, mixed media and installation. His work follows the traces people and places leave behind, through identity, memory, belonging and displacement, and reaches towards faith and the divine.

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Minimalism and maximalism collide on his surfaces, part of the mind play that runs through everything he makes. His audience enters that play too: what they give him becomes the work, so each piece holds more than one life. Born in 1998, O'Neal challenges how young minds are represented in contemporary art.

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